Forced not to wear hijabs in their workplaces, it s about 1,000 situations of unpopular decisions in christians and jews and muslims and others and saying that the government shouldn t force religious conviction out of the way at the point of a sword. that s what this is all about. the reason why you have conservatives standing here without progressives is because progressives who used to be part of this coalition have suddenly disappeared and have become frightened away for standing up for religious freedom. because they believe in they believe in things that they think matter more. like equal protection of people under the constitution. untrammelled sexual freedom that trumping every other up trampled sexual freedom? yes. lgbt people that s who they are, this is not about sexual freedom. this is an identity. and people who have religious convictions that could say, i
Defend discrimination. neither state gave lgbt advocates what they want which is protection as a class. under state law. now indiana added to its existing bill and arkansas passed a narrower version of its original bill which now is virtually identical to the religious freedom law that the federal government has. this is a story that almost defies understanding. and emotional reunion for a family who feared it may never happen. 37-year-old louis jordan left a virginia hospital a day after his remarkable rescue at sea. when asked if he ever lost hope jordan said he couldn t think like that. because of his family. most valuable thing we have are our relationships and those we love. and how we treat other people. that s what makes us precious. that s what makes people precious and valuable. is that we care for each other and we love each other and we live our love. so the back story for those of you that may have missed it jordan had been missing for 66
Days spotted in his disabled sailboat by a passing cargo ship about 200 miles off the coast of north carolina he was medivac d by the coast guard to the hospital. what s remarkable chris, is that he only had a shoulder injury but otherwise was okay. he apparently rationed his food. he said then he ate raw fish and drank rainwater in order to survive. it sounds like a movie. like part of the unbroken movie that came out about zamperini. i can t believe, imagine what goes through your mind for two months. survive. more than that. incredible. we re going to take a break. when we come back more on the bloody terror attack that has kenya and the world reeling. al shabab terrorists singling out christian students for slaughter. what do these smalian extremists want? and we are going to take a look at some of the revamped religious freedom laws in two states.
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Believe every state, if you go after an exercise of someone s religion you re going to lose in court. it is one of the most protected freedoms that we have. that s simply not true. how so? people lose in court over the exercise of their religion all the time. this happened with a photographer in new mexico who had conscientious objections to photographing a same-sex marriage. lost in court. because it wasn t deemed a legitimate exercise of religion. it was deemed she doesn t like gays. well no that s not what was happening. what was happening the court said that in balancing these things they felt there was a compelling interest to compel her to do this. which was? all of that these religious freedom bill does is say we have to balance religious conviction over against government interests. and the government has to prove why they have a reason to pave over someone s conscience in the sake of the public good. right, but it s always been