Dems once again on the wrong side of public opinion.
Via Bloomberg:
Last night, in the deluge of e-mails that mark the end of a fundraising quarter, donors to the Democratic Governors Association got a pitch for some emergency money.
Indiana’s Republican governor, Mike Pence, won a narrow election in 2012, with just 49.5 percent of the vote, and until this week Democrats had not talked about defeating him beyond a sense that it would be preferable to beat every Republican up in 2016. Now, with entertainers making fun of Pence and Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson joining him in panic about the backlash over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Democrats are settling in as the party that opposes religious liberty laws.
Most of the party’s potential presidential candidates have taken that stance. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband signed the federal RFRA (under very different circumstances) that Republicans keep tugging for a lifeline, has emerged to tweet her disapproval of the Indiana law and her hope that Hutchinson vetoes the Arkansas law. Hutchinson has asked for the legislature to change the law, but has not committed to a veto–which means the law could take effect without his signature.
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The margins were even larger in opposition to laws that proposed “penalties or fines for individuals who refuse to provide wedding-related services to same sex couples even if their refusal is based on their religious beliefs.” No Democrat is seriously proposing this; the nearest cultural analogue may be the story of Memories Pizza, the Indiana shop whose owner said that he would decline to provide pies to gay weddings, and saw its Yelp! page firebombed with angry comments. (The popularity of delivery pizza at gay wedding ceremonials is well known.) Still, according to Marist, Americans oppose penalties on businesses like Memories by a 65-31 margin. The margin among Democrats: 62-34 against.