BREAKING: Arkansas governor says he won’t sign religious liberty bill, asks lawmakers to change it

[LynneSin]

22. it's a bill to legalize HATE

We need to stop making it just about LGBT. I am here to support our LGBT friends and family but when we make this fight just about them then we overlook the fact that in reality ANYONE could be discriminated in this bill. Like women - a woman in Arkansas or Indiana could go to the pharmacy and have her birth control pills denied because the pharmacist feels his/her religious feelings are being violated (and happens to see no wedding ring on the finger of the woman). The phamacist doesn't know why that woman is getting birth control pills. Maybe she's in a long term relationship, maybe she is married and forgot to put her ring back on her finger, maybe she has multiple parters or maybe she had a medical condition that has nothing to do with sex but requires her to use birth control pills. But a doctor felt the need to prescribe this so why should a pharmcist NOT trained as a medical doctor have any right to play doctor and/or God?

This bill could be used to discriminate against a host of people. So we need to call these bills what they are - the right to practice BIGOTRY and HATE. ALL of us could be affected by it if we cross some imaginary line that offends that business's owner's warped religious rights.

We all must stand together in fighting these laws!

EDIT NOTE: it's also why I stopped calling it 'gay marriage'. In the end we are fighting for marriage equality. I think a gay person pointed it out to me that they werent' looking for something different or special. They just wanted everything to be equal. He said that hearing 'gay marriage' made it sound like they were asking for something different from straights and he had a good point. So I started using marriage equality.