Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Blog #9
Indiana set to enact 'religious freedom' bill
The Indiana governor is going to enact a religious freedom bill soon. The bill is expected to be signed this week because of lots of protests. This bill will prevent businesses from being forces to provide services that are contrary to their religion. The governor of Arizona recently vetoed a bill very similar to this because of pressure from big companies like Apple and American Airlines.
I think that this is acceptable but I don't necessarily agree with this. I don't think it is good that companies were forced to give service to people but I do think that the companies should be able to choose whether of not to allow service for certain people. I think that this is the specific business's choice to allow or not allow some people service because it is their own private business.
This has to relate with AP government because it has to do with the legislative branch of government passing laws. It also has to do with states being able to make their own laws and regulations based on their certain situations.
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I like your post, but I have to disagree. If they decide to pass this law, is it going to be another form of discrimination? It's almost the same thing as when blacks weren't allowed in certain stores. People argued they weren't going to serve them because it was "against their religion". Will the same thing happen with this?
ReplyDeleteThats not really what i meant. I meant it as people should be able to do this. It doesn't have anything to do with the federal government. All it has to do with is giving store owners more freedom over their stores. This would also be unconstitutional if not passed because the stores are private so the government doesn't have control over things like this.
DeleteAgreeing with you, Jack. Store owners are a private business and have so can do as they please.
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