Indiana Religious Freedom Law

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I don't have a problem with this, oddly enough. Discrimination laws don't really prevent discrimination to begin with, so I don't see the point in objecting to the opposite. On a related note, hate crime laws don't actually prevent hate crime: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/g...tml?page=3

In 2013, the Nation published an article by hate crime researchers which makes, I think uniquely, the admission that criminalizing hate crime does not reduce hate crime—​in this case against the LGBT community on which they are experts.

Do hate crime laws deter crime? There is a great deal of research on the question of whether the death penalty is a deterrent to murder. Hundreds of studies have tried to demonstrate that it is, and all have been debunked for statistical and methodological reasons. There is no conclusive evidence that the death penalty works as a deterrent. There have been far fewer studies done on hate crime laws as a deterrent, and none has demonstrated that they deter crimes. Hate crime law proponents will often argue that we don’t need scientific proof, only common sense. Many Americans simply accept the unproven assumption that these laws act as a deterrent. Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, states, “We recognize we cannot outlaw hate. However, laws shape attitudes. And attitudes influence behavior.” He is correct. Laws do shape attitudes. But our legal system does not write laws to shape attitudes; it writes them to justly and fairly punish explicit behaviors. .  .  . But the place to change social attitudes, hearts, and minds is not in prisons. It is in schools, in activist organizations, around the dinner table, at houses of worship and other places where people can talk, disagree and learn that disagreement may be a useful and even productive means of growth. [emphasis added]