Religious Freedom Restoration Act Archives

The Indiana smokescreen

April 2, 2015

The game has changed.

Why is the Left so infuriated by Indiana’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? After all, a liberal Democrat, President Bill Clinton, signed a very similar bill into law at the federal level back in 1993.

After all, left-wing Democrat, Barack Obama, supported a similar law in Illinois when he was a State Senator.

And after all, 20 states already have similar laws on the books, and a dozen more states have similar legislation pending.

So why the outrage now?

The Indiana Catholic Bishops respond

April 1, 2015

“We believe that it is crucial that religious freedom be protected. As Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel: “No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions” (n. 183).”