Right-Wing Activists: Yep, ‘Religious Freedom’ Protects Discrimination Against Jews

[rug]

In two separate incidents, conservative activists have been unable to explain why their desired ability to discriminate against gays wouldn’t also apply to Jews. Then they finally admit it: there’s fundamentally no difference.

06.14.14
Jay Michaelson

“I don’t think about—things I don’t think about.” So said William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer arguing against evolution, at the infamous Scopes “monkey trial.” The question was about Cain’s 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 Counsel—which, like its better-known cousin the Alliance Defending Freedom, works in courts and legislatures to carve out religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—struggled to distinguish between a wedding photographer turning away gay customers and one turning away black or Jewish ones.

“I think that’s fundamentally different,” Staver said, when asked by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who is Jewish. Why? Because “she’s not saying ‘I don’t want to go to a wedding where there are people who are gay or lesbian.’ She’s saying she doesn’t want to photograph a celebration of same-sex unions.”

Ah, so as long as gay people marry people of the opposite sex, they’re 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

[cbayer]

1. Their argument - some discrimination is good and some discrimination is bad -

just isn't going to work.

We win.

[Viva_Daddy]

2. So much for "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".