Jindal: Sued at Home, Standing "O" in Iowa

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In the furor over Donald Trump’s remarks about John McCain, Governor Bobby Jindal’s reception at the Family Leadership Summit this past weekend was somewhat overshadowed.

Jindal actually got several standing ovations at the Ames, Iowa, event, including a lengthy one for this:

“The government should not be able to fire me. The government should not be able to take away my tax status. The government should not be able to discriminate against me for being a Christian and wanting to live my life according to my beliefs. That’s what’s happening today,” Jindal said, receiving extended applause and cheers.

Jindal was urging action that would counteract the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent marriage decision.

“The next president should do what we did in Louisiana: issue an executive order, saying the federal government will not discriminate or take action against any individual or business that has a traditional view of marriage,” Jindal declared.

Of course, that conveniently ignores the fact that the Louisiana ACLU filed suit against he governor last month, challenging the constitutionality of his May 19th executive order.

“The executive order purports to provide special protection for a favored class of people – those being the people who share Governor Jindal’s opinion about marriage equality,” says Louisiana ACLU executive director Marjorie Esman.

Jindal issued his executive order the evening of the same day a House committee quashed Bossier City Rep. Mike Johnson’s bill to make the “Marriage and Conscience Act” state law. Esman says that order exceeds the governor’s authorized powers.

“By executive order, the governor can only issue things pertaining to the executive branch of government,” explains Esman. “He cannot do anything that affects private sector action of any kind. He has way-overstepped his constitutional authority, which is why we sued him.”

Back in Ames, Iowa, Governor Jindal did have this to say…about President Obama:

“We’ve got a president who has made it a consistent practice to ignore the Constitution, ignore the laws, issue executive orders,” Jindal declared, adding that if elected U.S. President, he would immediately rescind Obama’s “illegal” executive orders.

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