According to Richard Brodsky, Indiana went well beyond allowing religious organizations to practice what they want. The law states that they can move those practices into the realm of commerce.
The law extends the
inside-the-church exemption to commercial enterprises. Business
corporations get the same protection that a church gets.
Brodsky continues that if we think we've heard this before, we're right. It's the same argument
used to attack Obamacare in the "Hobby Lobby" lawsuit. That time is was
about insurance coverage for contraception, but the argument was the
same.
And we have also heard a variant in Citizens United, where the
Supreme Court conservative majority said corporations have the same
constitutional free speech rights as do living, breathing people.
He states that this law isn't the least bit traditionally "conservative". It is a radical, un-American, reactionary re-writing of our basic freedoms, engineered by the Tea Party conservatives.
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