I remember when that album came out. I also remember the insane costume Pat wore when he plugged it on a few talk shows.
I remember thinking that a better title would have been Pat Boone: Casting Aside What Remains Of My Dignity And Credibility In An Insane Attempt To Remain Relevant, but I guess that wouldn’t have all fit on the album cover…
Although now that I think about it, that would also have been a pretty good title for the press release in question!
Holy crap! I know it’s become almost a cliche to invoke Poe’s Law but damn. The more I see the more convinced I am that Poe’s Law should be considered almost a natural law.
This doesn’t really qualify as a stupid Republican idea, but it is relevant to this thread’s ongoing discussion regarding Indiana’s religious freedom act and it does show how such laws can backfire, at least from the probable viewpoint of those who championed it.
That’s actually pretty much exactly what the federal RFRA was passed for too: A couple members of the Native American Church lost their jobs for doing peyote (which the supreme court upheld). Congress said “that ain’t right” and passed the RFRA with wide bipartisan support. The federal law has also been used to uphold the right of the UDV church to drink hoasca tea. I think Indiana will have a fun time explaining why it’s OK for the Native American Church to do peyote but not OK for the Church of Cannabis to do pot.
I’m sorry if I’ve missed the discussion, but how is the Indiana law different from 1994’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act that was signed by Bill Clinton? This is not any kind of “gotcha” question, I’m honestly curious how the two compare/contrast?
There’s a GQ thread about this if you want to check it out, but the main point seems to be that the new laws expressly protect the rights of corporations to hold and exercise religious beliefs where the 1994 law only protected the rights of individuals and churches.
I am somewhat oversimplifying this, recent “corporations are people” court rulings have played into this. In addition the intent behind the Indiana law is suspect because of the anti-gay agendas of the groups that pushed for it.
