30-word rant

What sticks in your craw about politics, government or public policy? In 30 words or fewer, tell us what’s pestering you. Call 407-420-5276 or email insight@orlando sentinel.com. The best rants are published on Thursdays.

We are fighting in the Middle East to free people from a government with laws based on the religious beliefs of others. However, our liberties are being eroded by zealots who try to undermine our constitutional rights with their beliefs.

With regard to a new Indiana law on denying service on religious beliefs, isn’t it ironic that a country founded on allowing freedom from religious persecution is now using religion to persecute freedoms?

Bowe Bergdahl should be confined at Guantánamo, even if he’s the only person at Guantánamo.

We keep hearing about Florida’s 10 percent cost of Medicaid’s expansion after the third year. Ten percent is sales speak — it makes it seem small. Tell us what the dollar cost will be and how it will be paid for.

The pizza-shop owners whose business was threatened with arson for supporting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act have received more than $840,000 in an Internet appeal. There are good people in America yet. Deal with it, haters.

Based upon various religious faiths, can the Longwood bakery refuse to make a cake for a single mother’s baby shower, a cake for a woman who uses birth control or cupcakes for the high-school dance?

Congress has to OK the agreement to see what’s really in the agreement.

If a person works hard to establish a business, he should have the right to not do business with whomever he wishes. I guess the sign on the door that says “no shirt, no shoes, no service” will have to go away.

It’s a given that the Koch brothers’ $84 billion is being invested in productive enterprises. It’s obvious also enough of it is being invested in Congress and state governments to make sure politics reflects [the brothers’] ideologies.

Thank God March madness is over. Now we can concentrate on the madness that is sweeping not only our country but also the world.

Do the religious-freedom acts of various states protect minority religions, too, or is it just for the 80 percent of people in this country who identify as Christians?

While the city of Orlando builds a new soccer stadium and performing-arts center and other companies are giving employees raises to $10 an hour, the ushers at the Orlando venues have not received a pay raise in three years.