Former U.S. senator and occasional presidential candidate Rick Santorum had some provocative comments for Face the Nation over the weekend. The Blaze reports:
In his interview Santorum distinguished between discriminating against a person and declining to take part or contribute directly to an activity that one’s faith indicates is wrong.
“No business should discriminate … because of who you are,” Santorum said. “But it should have the ability to say, ‘We’re not going to participate in certain activities that we disagree with on a religious point of view.’”
Why do defenders of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act keep trying to split this hair? Look, if you’re going to concede that government properly ought to prevent private discrimination, then you’ve lost this battle. There’s nothing magical about “a religious point of view” that transmutes discrimination into non-discrimination.
Instead, the point to be made regarding the RFRA is that each individual retains ownership over their life and any product of it. We are not slaves. We do not act at our neighbor’s command. We get to say “no” when asked if we will engage in relationship of any kind, including commerce. Period. End of story. No further explanation required.
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