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Religious Freedom Laws vs. Equal Protection of Rights
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Religious Freedom Laws vs. Equal Protection of Rights

By Ari Armstrong

Apr 03, 2015
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The problem with religious freedom laws (such as Indiana passed recently) is not that they may allow private parties to discriminate against homosexuals; it is that they legally discriminate against nonreligious people. They carve out special legal status for religious people and thus violate the basic principle that government morally must treat all in…

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