Caught in the throes of the theatrical moral panic that followed Indiana’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), critics wailed that Governor Mike Pence had just signed a bill that would allow private companies to hide behind religious liberty when sued for violating Indiana laws protecting gays against discrimination. In their keening, they overlooked a key fact or two, one of which is that Indiana has no state laws protecting gays against discrimination.

It does have a handful of local ordinances, and there is the ever-present possibility of a judge “discovering” a right to use the force of the state to coerce Evangelical bakers into catering homosexual weddings or Catholic florists into garnishing the altars for same-sex unions — precedents in Colorado and elsewhere are very much what RFRA supporters had in mind when crafting the law.

Source: www.nationalreview.com