Religious Liberty, Gay Rights, Both Threatened by Government
Apr 6, 2015
In order to find the proper perspective for controversies in Indiana and other states over “religious liberty” legislation, it’s worth looking back at the long history of sodomy laws in the United States. That’s not because the rules to protect religious believers compare in outrageousness with the criminalizing of gay sex, but because the core issue in both cases remains the same. Sodomy laws and RFRA laws both involve the power of government to control private behavior — something Americans generally prefer to avoid….
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