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Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

We’re In The Middle Of A Corporate Civil Rights Movement

Author:     Joseph Slaughter
Source:     Talking Points Memo
Publication Date:     April 7, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT
 Link: We’re In The Middle Of A Corporate Civil Rights Movement
Stephan:   Here is an aspect of the Indiana story not discussed in corporate media suggesting that this is less about human civil rights, and more about corporate civil rights. It is an argument with considerable merit as you will see.

Corporations are peopleThe “fix” is in on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The religious right has somewhat retreated, at least for the time being. The strange alliance of corporate America and LGBT civil rights activists has triumphed—or at least the corporations have.

Governor Mike Pence has accepted an amendment clarifying that “this law does not give businesses a right to deny service to anyone.” But if the law is not about discrimination, what’s it about? We need to look behind the religious intolerance to see that the governor, legislators and businesses were willing to amend the original RFRA because the proposal didn’t change the original text of the law that extends and secures the corporate civil rights recognized in the Hobby Lobby decision in 2014.

The new RFRAs are part of the new Corporate Civil Rights Movement.

In March, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the hard-won victory of the Voting Rights Act and remembered the bloodshed on the bridge out of Selma that secured the legal civil rights of all Americans. Meanwhile, a much less spectacular civil rights march is […]

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2 Comments

  1. Anne B. on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7:42 am

    A Maine legislator has proposed a similar law as in Montana.

    • Anne B. on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 7:47 am

      Oops! I meant Indiana. Sorry about that.