Executive Disorder: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has issued a controversial executive order promoting and protecting discrimination against LGBT people.

Jindal issued the controversial order that will allow businesses and others to discriminate against same-sex couples immediately after a House panel killed a bill (HB 707) attempting to achieve the same effect.

HB 707, the “Marriage and Conscience Act,” would have blocked the government from penalizing companies and others opposing same-sex marriage for religious reasons. The bill was defeated in the state house’s Civil Law and Procedure over fears that it would legalize discrimination against LGBT people.

Yesterday, a bipartisan committee voted 10-2 to kill the bill.

It is perhaps no coincidence that after launching an exploratory committee to help him decide whether to seek the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2016, Jindal issued the controversial anti-gay executive order aimed at pleasing the conservative Christian base of the Republican party.

Jindal, contrary to the political consensus, claims his anti-gay executive order is about religious liberty and not about discrimination:

In Louisiana, the state should not be able to take adverse action against a person for their belief in traditional marriage. We don’t support discrimination in Louisiana and we do support religious liberty. These two values can be upheld at the same time.

However, many disagree, and see Jindal’s executive order as nothing but a mean-spirited and malicious political calculation to impress the conservative Christian base of the GOP.

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) notes that so-called “religious freedom” measures have “nothing to do with personal religious practice and everything to do with enshrining discrimination into law.”

JoDee Winterhof, HRC vice president of policy and political affairs, said:

Bobby Jindal showed today why he’s consistently named one of the nation’s least-popular governors: by ignoring his constituents, members of his own party, and business leaders who correctly understand that legislation that endorses discrimination is wrong and should be rejected. Gov Jindal made it clear that he’s so desperate to advance his longshot presidential campaign that he’ll say or do almost anything, including enable discrimination in the name of religion.

For presidential hopeful Jindal, “religious freedom” is code for “God hates the gays,” and by promoting “religious freedom” Jindal hopes to translate that Christian hate into votes.

Previously Jindal has claimed Jesus Christ “is America’s only hope,” and it is clear that Jindal is trying to stake out his claim as the most extreme Christian extremist in a field full of Christian extremists currently seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination,

Indeed, Jindal is carrying the flag of Christian nationalism, the false belief that America is a Christian nation, a belief supported by Dominion theology. It is a radical right wing movement composed of Christian extremists that want to rewrite American history, and replace the secular values upon which this nation was founded with a Christian theocracy.

Jindal’s anti-gay executive order promoting and enabling discrimination against gays is just one part of a larger strategy currently being deployed by conservative Christians to impose a Christian theocracy across the nation.

(Read Jindal’s executive order here.)