Restoring Religious Freedon Where it Already Plainly Exists

INDIANA AND ARKANSAS, United States states, are chock full of right wing Christian legislators, and that is a sure recipe for excitement, and perhaps even a bit of highly entertaining lunacy. Both states, accordingly, recently passed something called "Restoration of Religious Freedom" acts, under which business owners will have the right to refuse service to potential customers whose religious views or lifestyle choices differ from those of the owners, and the owners find disgusting and unacceptable. The new laws are basically designed to allow busineses owned by heterosexual christians to refuse service to gay folks, without being subjected to accusations of discrimination, but we seem to be pretending that this isn't the case. Presumably, however, an atheist could refuse service to anyone who believes in God, or a devil worshipper could refuse to do business with anyone who isn't. What a way to run a business! Soon as the pushback/uproar began, and the wealthy elite celebrity owners of really BIG businesses started to complain, the governors of both states backtracked on their support of the craziness, and expressed a desire for the laws to be rewritten, carefully pointing out that they were never intended to foster any sort of discrimination, somehow or other, but only to restore religious freedom to America. Something similar to these laws was signed into federal law in 1993 by President Clinton, but that was then and this is now, the torch has been passed to a new generation of aggravatingly tolerant young folks, and the national statute has largely been ignored, much like all inconvenient federal laws, such as anti-trust laws, marijuana laws, and financial regulations, are ignored. The notion that religious freedom, meaning the freedom of Christianity to dominate and control American culture, has in any way been compromised is, shall we say, borderline ludicrous. There is still a christian church on every corner, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one, and there have been no reports of any of them being locked up, burned, or boarded up by any local law enforcement officials, federal agents, or roving gangs of atheists, pantheists, Moslems, or Jews. Stay tuned; in the great fun house that is life in these United states, you can just sense that the fun has only begun.