CT passes Freedom from Religion law

In a seeming rebuke to the pro-Christian, anti-gay sentiment espoused last week by the Indiana General Assembly, Connecticut today became the first state to pass a Freedom FROM Religion law mandating that all CT residents have the right to a religion-free life. The law, which takes effect 30 days after Governor Daniel Mello’s expected signature, includes all religions. It makes illegal any “argument, rule, regulation or propaganda” that seeks to dictate personal behavior based on religious writing or belief.

The law, which passed along strictly partisan lines, also ends the tax-exempt status of all churches in the state.

Gay groups, women’s groups and liberals from Fairfield to Windham counties celebrated the passage of the law and looked forward to a more tolerant, relaxed and honest ethos in CT. Sex workers throughout the state also celebrated for, with the stroke of a pen, all references to sexual acts were removed from the criminal code, since they were found to be based on religious prejudice and preoccupation with pleasure.

“Finally, the free-thinking and intelligent good people of the Nutmeg State can live their lives without the homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic centuries-old thinking promulgated from the state’s pulpits,” said Assembly speaker Wudnit B. Nice.