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Thu Apr 2, 2015, 07:05 PM Apr 2015

George Takei: Indiana, Let Us Eat Cake

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/02/george-takei-indiana-let-us-eat-cake.html

"The Star Trek actor, author, and lifelong human rights activist writes about why Indiana’s “Religious Freedom” law is dangerous, and why gay couples deserve their wedding cake, too.

There’s been a lot of soul-searching lately about the myriad “Religious Freedom” (RFRA) laws that have begun popping up around the country in places like Arizona, Mississippi, Michigan, Georgia, Arkansas, and now most famously, Indiana. Much of the brouhaha began when a bakery way out in Oregon, acting on the religious beliefs of its owner, refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Thus were born the great cake debates.

Of course, the issue runs much deeper than that. The cake is really just that, a cake—but if you believe the rhetoric of the right, we gay people are trying to have our marriages and eat our cakes, too."

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