Indiana Governor Insists New Law Has Nothing To Do With Thing It Explicitly Intended To Do

[KamaAina]

Yes, it is The Onion.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/indiana-governor-insists-new-law-has-nothing-to-do,38330/

Addressing the controversy surrounding his state’s recently signed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Indiana governor Mike Pence forcefully insisted to reporters Monday that the new law has nothing at all to do with what it was explicitly intended to do. “Let me state directly that in no way is this law designed to allow the kind of anti-gay discrimination that is the law’s single reason for existing,” said Pence, emphasizing that provisions authorizing businesses to refuse service to gay customers were nothing more than the only explanation for the law being drafted in the first place. “Regardless of the widespread misconceptions surrounding it, I want to reassure Hoosiers of all backgrounds that this law will never be interpreted in the way it was unambiguously designed to be from the very beginning.” Pence further clarified that the act’s sole purpose was in fact to safeguard the free exercise of religion it was in no way whatsoever created to protect.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. LOL (did you hear his interview with Stephanopolus? i wanted to punch him)

[guillaumeb]

2. In this case I have to defend Mike Pence!

After all, the GOP has a long history of passing laws that do not do what the title suggests.

Take "right to work" laws. They have nothing to do with any right to work.

In 2008 George W. Bush signed legislation about the Clean Air Act that significantly relaxed standards for air quality.

There are more examples I could give, but "truth in legislation" has never been a GOP strongpoint.

[SomethingFishy]

3. Is this it? Is the universe going to collapse in on itself?

Because in spite of this being "The Onion" it is exactly what happened. I wonder if the fact that satire and reality have merged will cause a paradox in the space time continuum and that's all she wrote...

[KamaAina]

4. Poe's Law gets truer every day

it states that satire and hard news are rapidly converging.

[alterfurz]

5. disharmonic convergence

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. -- Art Buchwald