Right-Wing Activists: Yep, ‘Religious Freedom’ Protects Discrimination Against Jews
In two separate incidents, conservative activists have been unable to explain why their desired ability to discriminate against gays wouldnt also apply to Jews. Then they finally admit it: theres fundamentally no difference.
06.14.14
Jay Michaelson
I dont think aboutthings I dont think about. So said William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer arguing against evolution, at the infamous Scopes monkey trial. The question was about Cains wife; the answer was about willful ignorance.
The same philosophy was on display this week in Congress, when Mat Staver of the U.S. Liberty Counselwhich, like its better-known cousin the Alliance Defending Freedom, works in courts and legislatures to carve out religious exemptions to anti-discrimination lawsstruggled to distinguish between a wedding photographer turning away gay customers and one turning away black or Jewish ones.
I think thats fundamentally different, Staver said, when asked by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who is Jewish. Why? Because shes not saying I dont want to go to a wedding where there are people who are gay or lesbian. Shes saying she doesnt want to photograph a celebration of same-sex unions.
Ah, so as long as gay people marry people of the opposite sex, theyre perfectly welcome. Just not when they get gay-married.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/right-wing-activists-yep-religious-freedom-protects-discrimination-against-jews.html