The real religious freedom fight is about to begin — in Louisiana

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/04/08/the-real-religious-freedom-fight-is-about-to-begin-in-louisiana/

By Hunter Schwarz April 8 at 6:30 AM


Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) speaks about his legislative proposals to stop Louisiana from using the Common Core education standards at a news conference March 18 in Baton Rouge, La. Jindal said the anti-Common Core legislation will be among his top priorities for the legislative session. (Melinda Deslatte/AP)

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), a possible 2016 contender, is a relative unknown among voters; only 1 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents prefer him, according to the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll.

That could soon change.

Following on the heels of contentious religious freedom bills in Indiana and Arkansas, Jindal said he plans to support his state's own bill. Judging from how Indiana's bill catapulted Gov. Mike Pence (R) to the national spotlight, Jindal could soon see the same thing happen for him — and not necessarily in a good way. But Louisiana's debate could be different in one significant way.

Whereas Indiana and Arkansas had versions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, which included broad language that critics have said could have unintended consequences, Louisiana's Marriage and Conscience Act is more focused and deals specifically with religious beliefs in relation to same-sex marriage.

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[blkmusclmachine]

1. Jindal is another Christian reconstructionist/Christian dominionist.

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2. Pic URL: https://thatsmyphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/7-mountains.jpg

Comments are my own.

[cbayer]

4. Yes, and he is getting worse all the time.

When he first started in LA politics, I don't recall religion being a factor at all.

Now, it's all religion all the time.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. What is the 'Christian' name for their Shiria Law? Isn't it

canon law?

[cbayer]

5. I think it's dominionism.

[okasha]

6. No.

[safeinOhio]

9. Mosaic law

makes Shiria law look tame

[cbayer]

10. Wouldn't that be the Jewish version?

[safeinOhio]

11. Old Testament

See Book of Leviticus

[cbayer]

12. Right. They were the laws given to the Jews.

But the new testament doesn't totally go along with that.

I've seen leviticus. It's one of the books that some christians play a lot of attention to, while others do not.

[okasha]

13. Mosaic law and Shariah are very close.

Where do you think Islam got it?

Halal and kosher are the same. Special banking arrangements made for Orthodox Jews are identical to so-called "Shariah banking."

The fundies with their hair on fire about "Shariah" law don't know where it comes from.

[safeinOhio]

14. When they want to out law

foreign laws, I have to laugh.

[okasha]

7. New Orleans is a prime tourism

and convention destination. Boycott.

[cbayer]

8. It would be devestating.

It is also the home of a very significant and very politically active GLBT community.

Even though New Orleans is not reflective of the rest of the state, I think the backlash would be severe.