Show #80 Hour 2 | Guest: Bernadette Meyler, Professor
of Law and Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford University | Show
Summary: Indiana Governor Mike Pence knew well enough that his state's RFRA
would be controversial that he held the signing ceremony in private. Even so,
the nationwide reaction rocked the state government and Chamber of Commerce, and
a bill adjustment is promised. Indiana isn't the first nor the last to consider
moves ostensibly designed to protect religious freedoms. But how to define those
freedoms - and how to assure that the bills don't trample the freedoms of others
- is a multi-faceted issue that incorporates the Constitution, LGBT rights,
Citizens United, and past and pending lawsuits. Stanford's Professor Bernadette
Meyler walks Angie and the audience through the many considerations and
precedents to the case.
