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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowI object to a recent headline which states incorrectly, “Survey: Religious freedom law costly for convention business” (IBJ.com, Jan. 25). The law, with minor deviations, replicated the national RFRA law and is quite close to the law in 30 other jurisdictions. It wasn’t the law which caused a loss of convention business but the outrageous lies told about it by you at the IBJ, the Indianapolis Star and other media outlets.
If you doubt me, ask yourself what RFRA did. If you think it was to allow unfair discrimination against gays, lesbians, trans-genders, etc., you are mistaken.
RFRA, like the national law and the laws of roughly 30 other states, was to allow a legal defense to people of faith in court. That defense may or may not hold in court. That’s it!
There has been a lot talk of hate and there is hate—hate against those with whom the LGBT community disagrees, and that includes this “newspaper” and most media outlets in the area.
I support “civil same-sex marriage” and I do not agree with firing people because of their sexual orientation but this is an “at will” state. Those who argue that they can be fired because they are gay forget that I could be fired because I am straight! Should protections be added? I am not opposed to that if the law is worded correctly and is constitutional. But the adverse publicity and resultant negative economic impact is solely the result of the lies of you in the media, not the passage of the law itself.
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John L. Sorg
McCordsville
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