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The GOP and its Tea Party wing claim they want limited government, more individual freedom (they really are hot on that right to bear arms and freedom of religion business), and an end to government over reach. But it appears that they only want to have this happen when it affects their friends in Corporate America and their big donors, but not when it applies to the American people.

They seem to be promoting all kinds of bills that, while promoting corporations as people with all the rights and privileges of that, they are reducing the people to less and taking away their creator endowed unalienable rights.

In certain cases of equality, they ignore the person in favor of the restroom they might use, basing their decisions on their uninformed opinions. Being Transgender, for example, means nothing more than the restroom a person might choose to use.

In other areas they want to allow discrimination based on religious beliefs, just as it was back in the “good old days”. Slavery, then segregation, was based on certain Biblical principles, and religious freedom was the reason that things like desegregation should be opposed.

Now, in the name of religious freedom, discrimination against Gay people is perfectly acceptable as biblical.

Of course to deflect people away from seeing the bills like those recently passed in Indiana have a specific target in mind, they have to make it appear that if anyone chooses to deny service in restaurants, stores, or hotels, they have chosen to do so on their own.

The latest bills have basically removed responsibility for the bigoted treatment from the legislators who passed them onto the bigots who will use them.

To do this, they have just said a person can refuse service to anyone who goes against their religious beliefs, but they have had to avoid saying exactly whose religious beliefs they favor.

And what a can of worms they have opened.

A Muslim can refuse service to a Jew or a Christian, who in turn can do the same with a Muslim or a Jew, who in turn can do the same to a Muslim or a Christian.

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Christians can refuse to serve each other because of the various beliefs of the many denominations. We saw how that went in our early colonial days with the Puritans and Quakers; in the 19 Century with Mormons and Christians; and more recently in Northern Ireland a few years back.

There are approximately 41,000 Christian denominations and organizations in the world, so the intra-sect discrimination within Christianity will be vast.

And what happens if a first responder or a doctor refuses treatment to someone from another religion because of religious differences.

Will these same states complain if companies move out of their state, or corporations refuse to do business with them?

The government, that too big, over reaching government that the GOP, religions, and the Tea Party oppose has invited people to exercise what will become a circus of discrimination, but it will not protect the practitioners from their actions.

The citizenry will be at war with itself.

The United States will become a huge Northern Ireland with more people going at it, or more like the Middle East where, just as the Shi’ites and Sunnis go at each other because of religious differences, the Christians here will be in their own religious wars.

This will not end well as the country becomes divided, and as we are told to be wary of the intentions of other countries to destroy us, they will just have to bide their time as our dignity in the world is destroyed, and we kill the country by the warring divisions within.

The very people who claim they want to save the country  are the very ones who through their selfishness and narrow mindedness will be the ones who will destroy it.

In Jesus’s name.

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