We’re fortunate to live in a country where we can choose to participate in a religion or not. Drive down a street in just about any town all across our fruited plains in this great country and you’ll see churches. You and I can pick and choose where we go to church or if we even want to attend church or not.

How’s that for freedom? Is this a great country or what?

Back in the early 1990s along came something called the religious freedom law. You can ask ten people what it means and get 10 different answers. It’s been around in one form or the other since 1993 when President Bill Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. I know some folks on the right are checking Google about this because Clinton was the devil to them before Obama was the devil to them. They are asking the question, “How could Bill Clinton do anything even remotely religious?”

States felt they needed their own versions of the Federal law, so they started passing laws. I believe there are about 21 states that have some form of a religious freedom law. You may have recently heard about Indiana’s law. It’s causing the state a lot of problems and rightly so. Many folks believe the bill was nothing but a backdoor way to discriminate against gays. It’s kind of like the same way conservatives keep introducing bills to chip away at abortion rights.

This is 2015, and there’s a growing number of people who want religious freedom as long as they can make the rules and define the freedom.

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