As Marriage Equality Expands, Say Hello To Anti-Gay ‘Jim Crow’ Laws
For example, across the South, draconian statutes were passed against the trivial non-crime of “vagrancy,” allowing law enforcement to arrest and incarcerate African-Americans for being unemployed or incapable of proving employment. In many cases, these men were sold to the owners of semi-secretive mining operations or plantations as, essentially, slaves to serve without pay — in many cases, permanently disappeared from society. But since these were convicted criminals, slavery wasn’t “slavery,” it was justified as legal punishment for a ridiculous non-crime handed down by a kangaroo court. Other laws, such as literacy tests, poll taxes, segregation and anti-miscegenation statutes followed, and not just in southern states, by the way.
Rather than banning it, legislatures have decided that clinics can only exist within a certain distance of a hospital; they’ve decided that women should be forced to have what’s known as a transvaginal ultrasound in order to intimidate them against having an abortion; they’ve decided in some cases to redefine what constitutes a “legitimate” rape; and they’ve pedaled “fetal personhood,” “fetal heartbeat” and “fetal pain” laws that are de facto bans on abortion. The endgame here, whether intended or not, is the oppression of women as second-class citizens if not outright criminals committing a so-called “genocide” against the unborn. In this case: Jane Crow.
Sadly, what’s past is prologue, and in the face rapidly emerging and long overdue civil rights for LGBT citizens, RedState.com founder and Fox News screecher Erick Erickson posted an article on Friday calling for more state legislatures to pass what are known as Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs) before the Supreme Court weighs in on same-sex marriage in June. In 19 states, RFRAs are already law, and additional RFRAs in other states would make it legal to refuse service to gays and same-sex couples based on religious objections to their homosexuality. Last year, Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers (a Democrat) saliently referred to RFRAs as “homosexual Jim Crow Laws.”
Totally lacking any self-awareness with regards to the long history of last-gasp religious objections to nearly all civil rights laws, Erickson… CONTINUE READING
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12 responses to As Marriage Equality Expands, Say Hello To Anti-Gay ‘Jim Crow’ Laws
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Larry Schmitt February 16th, 2015 at 08:24
So do these bigots have someplace they can go to get “gaydar” installed, so they don’t run the risk of serving any of the homosexual sinners? Unless a couple specifically comes into a flower shop or a bakery and describes the event, how will they know? And this proves again that bigots make bad businessmen. Before the Civil Rights Act, they deliberately turned away people who wanted to pay them for a service, simply because of their color. That’s pretty damn stupid.
bluejayray February 16th, 2015 at 12:09
Not according to Rand Paul. He seems to believe that the free market magic will take care of it…Never gonna happen.
Larry Schmitt February 16th, 2015 at 09:24
So do these bigots have someplace they can go to get “gaydar” installed, so they don’t run the risk of serving any of the homosexual sinners? Unless a couple specifically comes into a flower shop or a bakery and describes the event, how will they know? And this proves again that bigots make bad businessmen. Before the Civil Rights Act, they deliberately turned away people who wanted to pay them for a service, simply because of their color. That’s pretty damn stupid.
$134608037 February 16th, 2015 at 13:09
Not according to Rand Paul. He seems to believe that the free market magic will take care of it…Never gonna happen.
bluejayray February 16th, 2015 at 12:08
No–you don’t get to use your right to religious freedom as an excuse to deny civil rights to others. You can discriminate in your home and hate in your church–but in the public sphere, we are ALL to be considered equal under the law. If you only want to serve straight people, then form a private club with dues-paying members. Then and only then you can pick and choose.
$134608037 February 16th, 2015 at 13:08
No–you don’t get to use your right to religious freedom as an excuse to deny civil rights to others. You can discriminate in your home and hate in your church–but in the public sphere, we are ALL to be considered equal under the law. If you only want to serve straight people, then form a private club with dues-paying members. Then and only then you can pick and choose.
cecilia February 16th, 2015 at 16:14
these people find it so easy to be bigots.
I find them revolting…..
cecilia February 16th, 2015 at 17:14
these people find it so easy to be bigots.
I find them revolting…..
tracey marie February 16th, 2015 at 16:36
How is this any of their business, their bible says to pray in private, don’t judge and live a righteous life…nowheredoes it justify racism and bigotry
tracey marie February 16th, 2015 at 17:36
How is this any of their business, their bible says to pray in private, don’t judge and live a righteous life…nowheredoes it justify racism and bigotry
majii February 17th, 2015 at 00:09
I read Erickson’s editorial when it appeared in our local rag. He can always be depended upon to push extremist views on every issue. If anyone proposed a law that would deprive him of any of his rights, he’d be squealing like the pink, greased pig he looks like. When he decided not to run for reelection on our city council, even some republicans were glad to hear the news and described him as being very divisive. I have no doubt that one of his associates in the General Assembly in Atlanta will grant his wish, and I have no doubt it will pass because the GOP/TP controls both houses in the General Assembly. Nathan Deal, spineless tool that he is, will sign the bill into law ASAP.
majii February 17th, 2015 at 01:09
I read Erickson’s editorial when it appeared in our local rag. He can always be depended upon to push extremist views on every issue. If anyone proposed a law that would deprive him of any of his rights, he’d be squealing like the pink, greased pig he looks like. When he decided not to run for reelection on our city council, even some republicans were glad to hear the news and described him as being very divisive. I have no doubt that one of his associates in the General Assembly in Atlanta will grant his wish, and I have no doubt it will pass because the GOP/TP controls both houses in the General Assembly. Nathan Deal, spineless tool that he is, will sign the bill into law ASAP.