Michigan Radio has been running a story in its few minutes of NPR local news that says Michigan business leaders are calling for sexual minorities to be included in the state non-discrimination laws. They say discrimination of us hurts recruitment. This is great news!
Alas, the GOP dominated state legislature isn't jumping on the opportunity. The news clips feature GOP talking heads say they haven't figured out how to balance the rights of gay people with the rights of religious people.
Since religious people are claiming the right of discriminating against gay people, balancing religious rights with gay non-discrimination rights is quite impossible. So, yeah, the GOP refusal is a smokescreen.
Which means we're to the question of whether there should be a religious right to discriminate against gay people. Considering 50 years ago white religious people were proclaiming a right to discriminate against black people the answer is simple and obvious: No there isn't a religious right to discriminate against gays.
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