http://finance.yahoo.com/news/indiana-pizzeria-owners-said-theyd-131425798.htmlThe internet gave these guys over half a million dollars? For being bigoted and hating gays? Really?
Wow, doctors and nurses and lawyers and lots of people have to serve pretty much everybody. A nurse can't refuse to provide medical treatment because somebody is a neo nazi with a swastika tattooed on their forehead and shouting obscenities, even though their conscience is screaming against everything that person is.
If a nurse has to treat bigoted neo nazis, then they should serve pizza to gay people.
And then of course there's Sharia Law....Yes that "religious freedom" bill applies to all religions and one of the things many conservatives don't like is the idea of "Sharia Law." This is Muslim religious law, basically. Why yes, that's a shriek of terror you're hearing from conservatives who secretly intended this law to only help conservative Christians like themselves. Once again, it seems there's that pervasive mistake that Christianity is the one and only true religion out there that matters, which is extremely offensive to all the other religions.
There is a reason we actually had separation of church and state, because when you try to enshrine religion in law, the question becomes "which religion?" Everybody's hand immediately shoots up as they all say "mine." The whole thing is absurd and has a lot of consequences they didn't think through. I hope you don't like eating beef or any sort of cow meat if your boss happens to be Hindu, because that's where the literal term "sacred cow" comes from. Same with pork and shellfish and alcohol (because prohibition worked so well...) in many religions. It just opens an entirely huge can of worms and there's a reason we didn't do this stuff before. It didn't work then and it won't work now.
What's that? That's not what they intended this to be about? Well then maybe it really was meant to basically be an anti gay bill after all and that's a bad thing.