Yes, Connecticut has a RFRA law and it is more robust than most other states.
Connecticut’s Governor Doesn’t Understand His Own State’s RFRA
LOL, most states have laws on the books saying doctors/EMS workers/average citizens are required to help a person in immediate danger of death or serious bodily harm. It's called the "Good Samaritan Law."
Those kinds of people are not being asked to cater a gay wedding. They're being asked to save a life. I think there's a bit of a difference in the two.
Make that a 16 year old girl who responded. That caused such a firestorm that her dad had to close the place down and go into hiding. People were jamming the phone lines with threats and bogus orders.
Why do gay rights count but Christian (or Jewish, or Muslim) rights not count?
This Country was founded on freedom of religion not freedom of gays.
Why do gay rights count but Christian (or Jewish, or Muslim) rights not count?
This Country was founded on freedom of religion not freedom of gays.
But there are doctors who are refusing other services. Like i said, it has to start somewhere.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/...y_of_lesbian_parents_because_they_re_gay.html
Come on, man. You think we let a few pizza places and bakeries stop catering gay weddings and all of the sudden Dr.'s and EMS workers will be letting gay people die in the streets? Also, as a gay person wouldn't rather know what businesses are "anti-gay" so that you could take your business someplace else?
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Openly gay conservative radio host Tammy Bruce on Thursday cautioned members of the LGBT community angry over Indiana’s religious freedom law against becoming the very “bullies” and “fascists” the gay community has been working for generations to overcome.
Radio host Tammy Bruce on “Fox & Friends.” (Image source: YouTube)
Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Bruce said the threats made against a now-closed Indiana pizzeria after its owners said they wouldn’t cater gay weddings is “another case of the mob … taking over the situation here.”
“For me, as a gay woman, it remains shocking,” Bruce said. “You sit back and watch this frenzy, like a wolf pack, going after survivors in a way … a pizza shop. And if there’s anyone in the world who should understand the vulnerability of being a minority, of being somebody that maybe others don’t understand or relate to, the vulnerability about work and jobs, being able to live your life as you see fit, it’s the gay community.”
Bruce chided LGBT activists for not remembering where they came from: “For me to turn around in the 21st century and see that this is what we were fighting for, so we could condemn people who are different, and with whom we disagree — it is the antithesis of what every civil rights movement was about.”
She compared the fervor over the Indiana law to the hostility and boycotts against Chick-fil-A in 2012 after its chief operating officer spoke out about his opposition to gay marriage.
“I think that when you see a mob operating, there’s fear and you tend to retreat,” Bruce said. “We saw this with Chick-fil-A. Everybody came to Chick-fil-A’s defense when they were under attack by fascists, by bullies … the gay liberals have turned into bullies, when our work is to stop that kind of behavior.”
Bruce insisted that rather than battling people of faith, the LGBT community should be doing the opposite: “To defend especially those under attack like Christians is exactly what we should be doing.”
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Openly gay conservative radio host Tammy Bruce on Thursday cautioned members of the LGBT community angry over Indiana’s religious freedom law against becoming the very “bullies” and “fascists” the gay community has been working for generations to overcome.
Radio host Tammy Bruce on “Fox & Friends.” (Image source: YouTube)Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Bruce said the threats made against a now-closed Indiana pizzeria after its owners said they wouldn’t cater gay weddings is “another case of the mob … taking over the situation here.”
“For me, as a gay woman, it remains shocking,” Bruce said. “You sit back and watch this frenzy, like a wolf pack, going after survivors in a way … a pizza shop. And if there’s anyone in the world who should understand the vulnerability of being a minority, of being somebody that maybe others don’t understand or relate to, the vulnerability about work and jobs, being able to live your life as you see fit, it’s the gay community.”
Bruce chided LGBT activists for not remembering where they came from: “For me to turn around in the 21st century and see that this is what we were fighting for, so we could condemn people who are different, and with whom we disagree — it is the antithesis of what every civil rights movement was about.”
She compared the fervor over the Indiana law to the hostility and boycotts against Chick-fil-A in 2012 after its chief operating officer spoke out about his opposition to gay marriage.
“I think that when you see a mob operating, there’s fear and you tend to retreat,” Bruce said. “We saw this with Chick-fil-A. Everybody came to Chick-fil-A’s defense when they were under attack by fascists, by bullies … the gay liberals have turned into bullies, when our work is to stop that kind of behavior.”
Bruce insisted that rather than battling people of faith, the LGBT community should be doing the opposite: “To defend especially those under attack like Christians is exactly what we should be doing.”
If a doctor refuses service to a gay lesbian couple expecting a baby, the chances of an EMS worker out there not giving his/her 100% effort to care for or save life of a gay person are just as good. This subject is still a slippery slope, it doesn't matter if it's a business or the medical field. Why do folks still worry about who other folks sleep with? This is 2015 for God's sake. And of course the Republicans back this. Nobody picks losing positions these days quite like the GOP.
