Truth Wins Out announced the release today of the second video in its "Flipping the Script on 
Religious Freedom" campaign, to highlight the real-world consequences
of laws that purport to protect religious liberty, when in reality they
only promote exclusion.
Religious Freedom" campaign, to highlight the real-world consequences
of laws that purport to protect religious liberty, when in reality they
only promote exclusion.
In our new video,
we show how such laws can open a can of worms and backfire on the
"Christian" sponsors of such bills. The video was released on the day
the Indiana House voted 63-31 to pass a notorious religious freedom bill that may allow business owners to refuse service to same-sex couples.
"If
LGBT people can be discriminated against based on faith, so can
Christians," said Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen. "And
there are millions of Americans who are not Christian and may abuse
these laws to exclude people based on their Christian beliefs.
This, of course, would be wrong, but in our current society, many
people still don't see this same injustice when it's done to gay people.
They call it 'religious freedom'. The Flipping the Script videos show
it for what it really is, discrimination."
In
our latest ad, a gay man who runs a theater company forbids a Christian
from buying tickets to a show after he sees a cross hanging from his
neck. Citing the fictitious "Church of Harvey Fierstein," he directs the
Christian to go to a theater that shows "Passion of the Christ." This
is a plausible example of what could occur under such ridiculous bills
that allow the gutting of anti-discrimination laws based on declarations
of "sincere" faith. The video dramatization was created for Truth Wins
Out by Chicago-based writer and performance artist Eric Clements, and
filmmaker Ben Nissen.
The first ad in our campaign,
"Religious Freedom Café," takes these "religious freedom" bills to
their logical conclusion. It focuses on an African American man who is
told to leave a restaurant because serving black people is against the
owner's religious beliefs.
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