Despite its claim of being "fair & balanced," Fox News' support for the original, discriminatory Indiana "religious freedom" bill was blatantly obvious. Their biased coverage included a claim of hypocrisy on the part of the CT governor who opposes the law. Thing is, in launching their attack, Fox omitted some salient facts.
In pandering to the religious right, Fox framed the issue as a "fight for faith" in which gays were "bullying" the good Christians of Indiana. The governor of CT, whose opposition to the bill included a ban (now rescinded) on state travel to Indiana, also earned the wrath of Fox.
During their March 31st show, the Fox & Friends hosts were adamant that the law was not discriminatory and anybody who says so is lying. Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted that Connecticut would be boycotting Indiana "even thought they have a law that's quite similar and reflective of the 1993 law signed by Bill Clinton." (Not noted by the gang was the fact that the original Indiana law was more expansive than the Federal RFRA.)
On April 1st, Megyn Kelly conducted an interview with Mike Huckabee which hit the requisite propaganda buttons. As on Fox & Friends, the claim was made that the law was not discriminatory and that opposition to it derives from anti-Christian hatred. Gov. Malloy was targeted because, according to Kelly, he said that nobody who supported the Indiana RFRA was qualified to be president. After playing video of his comment, Kelly snarked about how Malloy "by the way leads a state with its own religious freedom law."
As usual, the "fair & balanced" Fox hosts neglected to tell the whole story. Neither the Fox "friends" nor Kelly bothered to inform their viewers that there was a significant difference between the CT and the original Indiana law. The CT law mirrors the Federal RFRA in that it applies to just people and not, as in the original Indiana law, businesses and corporations. The other important fact, missing in the Fox coverage, is that CT has an anti-discrimination law which protects gays and lesbians.
According to a recent poll, Fox News is the most trusted. Once again, that old PT Barnum quip about the birth rate of suckers comes to mind!