Showcases how difficult it will be for lawmakers like McCain to object to SB1062, yet support religious owners of businesses’ demand for exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate. Keep digging that hole…
“…Rather than deny the shift, or stop at trying to reverse it in legislatures, the courts and at ballot boxes, conservatives are instead attempting to erect a legal architecture that will wall them off from the growing portion of American society that supports equal rights for gay people. The idea is to use their putative religious beliefs to exempt themselves from broadly-applicable laws when those laws reflect a zeitgeist that offends them — or, as former-Business Insider writer Josh Barro put it, to create “a special new right to discriminate on a particular basis…
The bad news is that this phenomenon isn’t limited to homophobia, and doesn’t always masquerade as an exercise of religious freedom. As America grows more liberal, conservatives are retreating into a variety of interlinking, but isolated subcultures and, when necessary, making or manipulating law to insulate themselves from contact with the masses. Like a cultural manifestation of Going Galt. Welcome to white America’s waiver society.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/white_americas_waiver_mania_the_rights_plot_to_minimize_its_culture_war_defeat/
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