CNN's Cuomo Rips Religious Freedom Activist For Trying to 'Enforce Intolerance'

Matthew Balan | February 24, 2014
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CNN's Chris Cuomo made no secret of his support of left-wing LGBT activists on Monday's New Day, as he spotlighted the controversy over a proposed bill in Arizona that would protect the religious liberties of business owners. Cuomo berated a guest from the conservative lawyer for her defense of the bill: "You don't need even need this law unless what you want to do is enforce intolerance...That's what it seems like you are doing to me, and it seems pretty obvious."

The anchor, who recently extolled rapper Macklemore's pro-LGBT agenda "Same Love" track, blasted guest Kellie Fiedorek and the organization she works for, the Alliance Defending Freedom, for their social conservative agenda:

CHRIS CUOMO: Your organization has a history of trying to hedge the ability to deal with gay marriage and gay rights in the country. All somebody has to do is – you know, Google your organization. So, let's just be open and honest about it....LGBT is not protected, so you are now designing a law that exploits that. Why don't you own that proposition and say, yes, that's what my organization is about. We're trying to protect Christians who feel this kind of exclusionary belief, and that's what this law is about.

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