Governor Bobby Jindal continues his anti-gay policies by ensuring government employees are “protected” at the expense of the LGBT community.
Bobby Jindal has been waging war on the LGBT community for years. As Louisiana Governor, Jindal opens the legislature’s session each year with a speech. This year in April (photo above,) Jindal vigorously stressed his belief that a pending “religious freedom” bill be passed, despite the nationwide outrage Indiana had just experienced.
“There is a nationwide push by the far left to weaken the First Amendment to the Constitution,” Jindal charged. “And here in Louisiana, as long as I’m your Governor, we will protect religious liberty and not apologize for it.” Later that month Jindal wrote an op-ed in which he specifically stated his plan to fight “discrimination against Christian individuals and businesses.” Not, say, “people of faith,” or, “those with deeply held religious beliefs,” but “Christian individuals and businesses.”
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One month later his “religious freedom” bill failed to pass, and within hours Gov. Jindal signed two executive orders to “accomplish the intent” of the bill “to prevent the state from discriminating against persons or entities with deeply held religious beliefs that marriage is between one man and one woman.”
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Now that the Supreme Court has ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Jindal, who is running for the Republican nomination for president despite being America’s least popular governor, is fighting back.
On Monday, Jindal published a legal memorandum from his Executive Counsel pointing to Jindal’s executive order allowing government employees to cite deeply held religious beliefs in order to refuse to have anything to do with same-sex marriage.
In that memo, Executive Counsel Thomas Enright Jr. warns “all branches of government in Louisiana” to make “appropriate accommodations” for “state employees who express a religious objection to involvement in issuance of same-sex marriage licenses, and judges and justices of the peace may not be forced to officiate a same-sex wedding ceremony when other authorized individuals who have no religious objection are available.”
The memo goes on to state, stunningly, that “numerous attorneys have committed to defend their rights free of charge,” effectively encouraging government employees to refuse to perform their job functions regarding same-sex marriages.
It concludes, “Louisiana is resolved to protect the inalienable rights of all it citizens.”
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