When our moral convictions conflict with the law

Consider this...usually, when we speak about the sacrifices needed to live up to our own moral convictions we mean our own sacrifices...not compelling others to sacrifice for our moral convictions (which seems both cowardly and immoral).

Politifact analyzed Pence’s claims here.  Find them to be ‘half-true.’

Here is the Akron Beacon Journal article from today.  This article quotes Pence making these two comments.

“This is not about discrimination.”  Here claiming that this law is not related to efforts to roll back gay marriage and gay rights in Indiana, as critics have charged.

“Look, the issue here is still is tolerance a two-way street or not.”  Here claiming that this law is an effort to push back against groups securing rights by insisting that these groups have to tolerate hostility from groups that already had these rights.

In the first quote, which represents Pence’s overall strategy of response, he claims that this law has nothing to do with anything other than religious freedom.  In my view, this is spin and a classic illustration of what philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt’s calls bullshit:  he is not lying; but he is fundamentally misrepresenting his intentions.  

He is being phony and fake, as his second quote reveals.