Jon Stewart returned from last week’s vacation, fresh enough to bring some of his unique brand of clarity to the firestorm that has been Indiana – and it’s hilarious!
Jon Stewart was on fire Monday night, and dove into the craziness of the religious right in Indiana last week.
In “A Million Gays to Deny in the Midwest,” Stewart mocked the “quirky local laws” that apparently had prevented Indiana residents from observing their religious beliefs, thus prompting the need for Mike Pence’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. “I did not realize that people in Indiana could not practice religion.”
Then he realized what the RFRA was actually designed to do.
“Wait. Gay people aren’t asking you to make them a ‘gay’ product, they’re just asking to buy the product you make,” he explained. “Although, perhaps that explains the signs in so many Indiana storefronts.”
Stewart went on to show a clip of Mike Huckabee falsely claiming all those corporations that came out in support of equality was because “militant gays” forced them to, or, as Stewart, after telling Huckabee to “shut up,” paraphrased the former Arkansas governor: “So, when gays want equality it’s militancy, and when Christians want to deny service it’s freedom.”
And later, after showing several religious extremists as they keep comparing gays to the Westboro Baptist Church, the KKK, to Hitler.”
“For some Christians,” Stewart concluded, “catering an elderly lesbian wedding is like making a Jew slow dance with Hitler – that’s all I’m saying! Do you see how f*cked up that is? Basically, you see people celebrating love, as a hate group.”
In the second segment, Stewart took on the hate that spurred people to donated almost $850,000 to Memories Pizza.
Watch both – they’re awesome. Then find someone who supports religious discrimination and have them watch both too!
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