"A Giant Get-Out-of-Reality-Free Card"

"In April, Mississippi became the nineteenth state to enact its own RFRA, which essentially legalizes discrimination against LGBT people by individuals as well as businesses, as long as the haters remember to attribute their views to God. Instead of protecting LGBT people from discrimination—a business refusing to serve them, for example—Mississippi will be siding with the bigots, just like old times. Last year, the state passed the Student Religious Liberties Act, which gives pupils the right to express themselves freely on matters of faith without consequences. Johnny can tell his classmate Jane that she'll burn in hell because she's a lesbian and write all his biology papers on Adam and Eve and their dinosaur pets, and the school can't say a word about it. That would be intolerant."

Katha Pollitt in The Nation calls for repealing 1993's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.