From website Arkansas Online: Arkansas House Bill 1228, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, doesn't actually say anything about gay rights.
Of course, gay rights is what led to the bill and is what everyone is talking about. But the more important issue is one fundamental to any society: To what degree should majority values be enforced on a minority?
In this case, what once was the majority view — marriage involves only a man and a woman — rapidly has become the minority view. And yet that view still is held by many people with sincere religious beliefs.
Indiana, which recently passed a similar law, is really feeling the heat, but so is Arkansas, and it may get hotter. The gay rights group Human Rights Campaign published a full-page ad in the San Jose Mercury News, which serves Silicon Valley, saying Arkansas is “closed for business due to discrimination.” Walmart and officials with Acxiom have opposed the bill.
A little empathy — and a little less shouting — might be in order here. If you are not gay, imagine how you might feel had you been subjected to ridicule since childhood and if the state had passed an amendment banning gay marriage in 2004? You might be wary of any law you think is aimed at you. And for those who say House Bill 1228 is legalized bigotry, would you want the government forcing you to participate in a ceremony that violates your beliefs?
From website RedState: In the last 24 hours, much of the mainstream media has shown itself perfectly willing to serve as agents of Satan (or should I use Moloch to make you feel better?). Most of the news anchors, reporters, and opinion writers of the press are perfectly fine forcing you to violate your conscience as long as they do not have to.
Two years ago this week, I coined the phrase “you will be made to care.” The media have long served to push along the left-wing agenda. Their reporting on Indiana is a greater mythological fiction than how they view Jesus. In light of the press’s advocacy, not reporting, in the last 24 hours in defense of hypothetical gays shut out of hypothetical businesses, it is worth revisiting the genesis of “You Will Be Made to Care.”
