It’s been less than 24 hours since Indiana Governor Mike Pence (pictured) signed into law a draconian measure that grants business owners the right to discriminate against gays and lesbians in the name of “religious freedom,” and the fallout is already proving to be huge.
In addition to billionaire CEO Marc Benioff pledging to “dramatically reduce” his company’s investment in the state, a number of celebrities are also coming forward to blast Pence for being, in the words of Miley Cyrus, an “asshole.”
Now, an employee for the state has announced he’s resigning from his job in an act of solidarity with those who will be affected by the discriminatory new law.
The Bilerico Project reported this morning that Erik Deckers, a travel writer for the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, gave his notice shortly after Governor Pence signed the bill. Deckers is heterosexual but has been an advocate for LGBT rights for many years.
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In a Facebook post written yesterday, he said:
I’ve resigned as a travel writer for the Indiana Office of Tourism Development (VisitIndiana.com), because of the passage of #RFRA. I love Visit Indiana, and the people there are doing great work with diminishing resources. But I can’t invite people to visit us when some of them are less welcome than others. As long as the state government thinks discrimination should be legal, I can’t work for the state government.
It remains to be seen what the other repercussions will come as a result of Indiana lawmakers’ shameless homophobic actions, but we’re pretty sure this is just the tip of what will become a very expensive iceberg.
h/t: The Bilerico Project
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David Red
Good!
Tommy O'Brien
It is nice that cyrus thinks the giv ia am asshole but will she still perform concerts in indiana? The only thing that will affect the state is an economic boycott. Hurt their bank accounts
jimmycurry01
Angry celebrities do not count as making the fallout uglier. Nor does the resignation of one state employee. None of that matters. Only money talks, and more companies and investors need to speak up by leaving the state if any difference is to be made.
Curty
Sports organizations are also speaking out, kind of hypocrisy since nfl won’t even allow an openly gay man to step forth in a regular season game. NCAA has raised concerns. So its good lot of people have protested and spoke out against this outrageous discriminatory law. This should be took to court immediately. All of our allies need to slam and cause Indiana to go bankrupted for this.
Jim Busenbark
Good!
Carlos Zuniga
This is hardly a fallout. They need to be hit where it hurts.
Sean Burke
Please sign and share with everyone you know https://www.change.org/p/ncaa-to-move-the-big-ten-football-championship-out-of-indianapolis
David J Stob
I’m sure all the ignorant ass congresspeople are thinking “oh fuuuuudge! What did we just do?!”
Kathukid
Too bad I have no desire to ever travel to Indiana, otherwise I would boycott it.
Cam
Where is BJ and his other screenames to talk about how the people pulling business from Indiana are the bullies and the bigots are the victims?
Dakotahgeo
Indiana… what a shit State! The people who vote those assholes in are no better than the idiot politicians who run the State. Indiana is about to receive a new State name — Detroit!
Jerry Payney
Good… I hope the fucking Burn in Hell.
Kevin St-laurent
I really dont get why americans still fight against lgbt equality. From up here in Canada it really doesnt make any sense…Keep up your fight you cant loose this!
RIGay
News flash – These lawmakers do not care what you think.
onthemark
I can see a business boycott, and a state travel employee leaving. But there’s a bit of disconnect in the travel boycott talk. When it was suggested after Prop. 8 that there be a gay boycott of California, you could hear the agonized shrieking all the way to the East Coast. Apparently a travel boycott of California was Just Not Appropriate – for some mysterious reason that was never explained* – so we heard no more about that for the next six years.
*(like… that would be hard, or something.)
But whenever it comes to a small state, a travel boycott is always the way to go? Even when the state is hardly solid “red” (Indiana voted for Obama in ’08, and has a D senator) and there are several gay-friendly cities with sizable gay populations?
@Dakotahgeo: You live in Kansas! Come on, you live in fucking KANSAS!!! You can’t criticize anybody, you can’t even criticize Oklahoma!
Dakotahgeo
@onthemark: Oh HO HO HO–HO HO!!! We have our own horses’ asses TEApublicans but just because you have to follow the horse, onthemark, you DON’T have to put your nose to its ass and inhale. Back off a bit… you’ll come out of the haze! We’re working on it, we’re working on it, Dumbledorf!
Derek Williams
No-one is forcing religious people to be gay or to marry the same sex, or abandon their religion. If a religious business doesn’t like gay people formalising our relationships in civil marriage, they should deal with that by voicing disapproval, not bullying gay people by refusing to provide services they would provide to straight people.
What about a town where no-one is “LGBT friendly”? In a small town with only one foodstore, one hospital and one school, the effect will rapidly become genocidal as it allows shops to refuse to sell food, education, healthcare, accommodation, transportation and other goods and services to gay people. Over time, with “deeply held religious belief” now legally enforceable, overturning the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, comes the right to turn away Jews, Muslims, atheists, African Americans, humanists, and “not the right kind of Christian”. Muslim shop owners can now legally refuse to serve women unaccompanied by their husband, women with their clitoris intact, educated women, women not obscured by the burqa, women who drive a car to the shop, non-Muslims, or anyone with an iTunes account. These are all “deeply held religious belief” enshrined in Qu’ran/Hadith/Shariah.
A supermarket employee whose religion teaches against smoking, drinking, contraception and divorce can refuse to sell cigarettes, alcohol or contraceptives to a customer, or anyone who is divorced, because of their religious belief against smoking, drinking, contraception and divorce. The supermarket will be unable to sack them for refusing to do their job.
Alexander R. Rodriguez
Sorry gurls. “Religious freedom” is a REAL non quotation thing.
SteveDenver
@jimmycurry01: It all counts. Who made you king? Every bit of negative backlash counts and celebrities will probably reach more people who don’t know what’s going on than anyone else.
AzLights
@Sean Burke: Signed and shared via Facebook.
Creig Stearne
Religion = “authorized” bigotry.
Richard Ballinger
boycott indiana
Jim Guinnessey
Indiana, like Kansas and Alabama, should ask Vladimir Putin to allow them to join the Russian Federation as their anti-Gay laws are similar. These are three states whose so-called “good Christians” dominate state and local politics. Iran is not the only country in the world ruled by bigoted and hateful theocrats. Gov.Pence and others like Kansas Governor Brownback and Alabama Judge Moore sponsor these hateful shots right here in the USA. And,of course, pretending to pose as patriotic defenders of religious freedoms(especially for discriminatory corporations and jaded religious denominations) these states have turned hatred into a virtue.
Dakotahgeo
@Jim Guinnessey: Believe me, we are NOT happy with Governor Brownshit in Kansas, errr, I mean, Governor Brownstain! He and his TEApublican Mafia have all but decimated most the Departments in the State Capitol. Roads and infrastructure, education is down the hole, literally, plus many other programs! As a Gay person, the GLBT issues are the LEAST of our problems right now… we’re simply rearranging the deck chairs on the political Titanic at the moment. It would be very easy to wish that every idiot who voted for Brownshit Mafia, Inc. person lose everything they own, but the poor sots wouldn’t even bat an eye! As usual, the Democrats and Progressives will have to return and clean up the dung piles in four years. So be it!
Mista Majah P
He needs to repeal that law or resident of Indiana should hold special election and recall his ass as governor
Austin77
@onthemark:
There *was* a state boycott over Prop 8. Of Utah. It was known from the start that Prop 8 was basically passed thanks to Mormon money, so no one blamed California much for it.
In this case, Indiana’s doing it to themselves, unquestionably.
Gregory R. Bowman
boycott his Hoosier ass!
dannyboi2
I think we should just all boycott religion period. Until religious zealots stop this nonsense. We have laws that protect us from these buffoons and we should all unite and say we’ve had enough! Every other day it’s something new. Enough already. We are Queer and here to stay, Bitch! Where’s OBAMA?
#boycottreligion
lykeitiz
@Sean Burke: Done! Thanks for sharing!
Mack
@onthemark: A business boycott would serve it’s purpose if its directed toward locally owned businesses. Most of the national chains supports gays and are probably against this law. But it’s the locally owned businesses who would be the ones supporting this law. Once you start hurting their pocket books they would contact their state legislators to have the law repealed. Plus any business that supports this law should be noted on Yelp.
Darryl Moir
All gays burn the fucking state on your way out.
onthemark
@Austin77: @Mack: Thanks for your serious replies. Regarding California, I was being a little facetious and understood the situation just fine.
It was inappropriate in 2008 to punish gay people in SF and LA for the dumb voters in the Inland Empire and Central Valley. Right?
Regarding Indiana, I was asking a serious question. Do we simply have a double standard for small states? Especially if we’re unfamiliar with them and have no intention of ever going there anyway? Or what?
For instance, closer to home (Massachusetts) we’re often horrified at the idiot Tea Party governor of Maine. But I’d be uncomfortable with a travel boycott of Maine if something like this came up. There really ARE gay people living in Maine who’d be hurt by a travel boycott.
William Perri
Another reason to just fly over Indiana. …… .and use the toilet !
inbama
@onthemark: Maine will not pass such a law. They keep getting stick with this evil governor because a liberal third party narcissist has twice diluted the Democratic vote, and so Maine shoots itself in the foot.
ait10101
I have lived in Indiana in the 80s. I worked (volunteer) on a Gay and Lesbian talk line there. I knew of a pair of gay twins whose parents had the local sheriff put them in jail because they didn’t know what to do with them (Nashville). They got out and moved in with some gay people in Bloomington. I thought maybe things had changed. I was going to go after a research grant to work with some people I know in Indiana, but I am thinking that maybe I don’t want to. I recall getting more obnoxious and prank calls in Indiana than anyplace else I have worked the Gay phone lines. Some of them were dripping with hatred. I guess some things don’t change. Here is hoping that this time they do. There is always hope. You’d think there would have been more progress in thirty years. Sigh.
David Andrew Roubideaux
That is some fucked upp news!!
Giancarlo85
Indiana should basically join Iran. They are endorsing theocracy… they basically want the same thing. This law will be thrown out by the federal courts. It is just that simple. It will not stand. The assault on the constitutional rights of LGBT people sickens me.
Paul V. Vitagliano
Mike Pence’s mother must be so proud…
Giancarlo85
@onthemark: Yeah. But it wasn’t just the inland. LA County voted in favor of Prop 8 by 52-48% if I recall. I was really upset about the No on 8 Campaign because they operated an grossly ineffective campaign. No matter how ineffective, Prop 8 only passed by a narrow margin. I was particularly upset that few to no Spanish advertisements were run by the No on 8 campaign. I knew several who worked in the campaign and I stressed we needed more outreach to Latino voters.
Just a side thought.
Alpencrow Wolf
The state is screw now.
Chris Vogel
This is very typical of religious conservatives. Indiana has no law that prohibits discrimination against homosexuals in business services or, for that matter, in anything else (employment, rental housing, etc.), so that was legal anyway. And, for all that, the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” now in force here and in the other 19 states that have enacted it, applies to everything. Despite its proponents claiming that it is to permit discrimination against homosexuals in business services, the Act itself is not limited to, either, sexual orientation, or to business services. Now it is legal, in Indiana, to discriminate against anyone (everyone) in any area (including employment and housing), provided that you claim that you have a “firmly held conviction”. All very Christian.
GG
Excerpts from the NFL’s Policy re sexual orientation:
OBJECTIVE
Make sure that everyone understands that harassment and discrimination based on sexual orientation are contrary to our values.
EXPECTATIONS
Respect your co-workers. Respect their differences and backgrounds. Your definition of acceptable workplace behavior may be vastly different from those around you.
Align your personal standards with the same high standards we all share within the NFL.
Read, understand and follow NFL and club policies on harassment and discrimination.
Report incidents of inappropriate behavior.
If you see others engaging in misconduct, let them know that you find it offensive and ask them to stop.
Here: https://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/nfl-ewc-sexual-orientation.pdf
The NFL corporate offices are in New York. If (and when) an NFL team with an openly gay player(s) is scheduled to play the Indianapolis Colts in Indiana, the League will be hard pressed to ensure their player is treated in accordance with their own policies.
Can you say, “Los Angeles Colts”?
charlie_jackpot
Excuse my ignorance of US politics, but can’t the President overturn this?
Giancarlo85
@charlie_jackpot: Would be down to the Court system… I am sure there are lawsuits pending.
onthemark
@Chris Vogel: Good point. Everybody is flipping out about the newest one, Indiana, when there were already 19 other states doing this. (To varying degrees as the laws are worded differently.)
No doubt some of the posters here who are busy making fun of Indiana, already live in “Religious Freedom” act states and are not even aware of it!
Giancarlo85
Indiana and Mississippi (I believe was the other one) took the so called “religious freedom” laws to extremes though and that is what a lot of people have an issue with.
I live in California, so while we have this lunatic lawyer trying to get some law on the ballot, we don’t have any so called “religious freedom laws”. We have a governor who should seriously consider a run for President… one of the best governor’s in the entire nation.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article8473271.html
His approval rating keeps shooting up and up… and even our legislature gets very high marks. Unusual because most people in this country give Congress extremely low marks.
polarisfashion
How much revenue will the State lose before they repeal the law they just pass. Also if big businesses start losing profits they will contact their bought and paid for politicians. I have to wonder though, the conservative leadership is supported by both the wealthy and the religious. Which side wins when their interests collide, money or religion?
Knarf Yahzie
Ha
DarkZephyr
@Alexander R. Rodriguez: Who are you calling “gurls”, exactly?
Giancarlo85
@Alexander R. Rodriguez: Another idiot. No it isn’t.
BeachDaddyDave
No, the President has no power or authority to overturn any law of any state. The President’s authority is limited to executive power at the Federal level. To overturn this, the state must repeal it, or the Indiana State’s Highest Court must rule it unconstitutional, or the case may work its way up through the Federal Court system.
Giancarlo85
@BeachDaddyDave: The federal court system is more a sure thing. We can’t expect Indiana to throw out a law they passed.
jimontp
@Tommy O’Brien: Exactly. The only way to make the bigots pay is economically. Who knows what they make or grow in Indiana? Do I have to ask Amazon every time before I click the buy button? Can I find a label in Trader Joe’s that says grown in Indiana? There must be some really tech savvy gays who can make a list. What cars are built in Indiana? Is the mattress I’m thinking about buy have any products that came from Indiana? Travel boycott isn’t really useful cause who the hell would have planned a summer vacation there in the first place? But some little speciality stores that sell jam or sheets should be easy targets. Make them feel the pain for their hate.
Desert Boy
Let’s see if our so-called “straight allies” in the music industry refuse to include Indianapolis in their city tour line-up. Or, if making $$$ matters more to them.
David Smith
i thank he and his famly go to a business and are told to get out cuz we don’t want you here . See how long that works till the business go under just like him and his cron”s
Tothiwim
The most important religious freedom is freedom from religion. The most important principle of government is separation of church and state.
Gman23
It’s not enough – need to do more. Tell everyone of the charitable organizations that you donate to that you are no longer donating to them unless they can prove with words and show the rest of the world that they do not support discriminative laws like this. Even Veterans Groups. I will be doing that. I will respectfully let them know that I no longer can donate for the reason and then tell them that I am helping them by helping them save postage and the little goodies that they send me every day. Sorry, I only have enough money to go around and I think I need to stick to the LGBT organizations.
Jackson Waters
Govornor Pence, how does it feel to be on the loser list. A guaranty that you’ll never get to a higher office. Sucks to be you!
Bellamy
DON’T FORGET TO BOYCOTT ALL EBAY AND AMAZON PRODUCTS SHIPPED FROM THIS HATE STATE.
Indiana’s new law is heterosexist theocratic terrorism, plain and simple. It is un-American and definitely un-Biblical. It isn’t enough that they repeal this law; the state of Indiana must be censored by the United States Congress (contact your congressmen and demand it), and the governor must be punished for daring to presume the right to deprive Citizens of their birthright to justice and equality.
All business owners in Indiana who oppose this terroristic law should put signs in their windows denying service to every employee at all levels of the government, and deny service to fornicators, adulterers, divorced persons, anyone born to illegitimate parents, and anyone who has ever eaten shrimp, lobster, crabs, clams, mussels, bacon, sausage, pork chops, pork roast, catfish – all of which requires the death penalty under Old Testament law – accompanied by the relevant Bible verses which the governor believes entitles you to discriminate against a Free Citizen of a Constitutional Republic.
Alan down in Florida
@onthemark: If anything it seems to make more sense to go to Indiana and patronize those businesses that don’t participate in the discrimination. It’s up to Indianans to vote with their feet by not patronizing places that discriminate and then using those feet to get them to polling places on Election Day to vote out the a-holes who passed this law.
tusgold
imagine if all this legislative and governmatal elected officials were geared toward helping the poor? creating jobs ytotgh much needed infrastructure projects and getting the bigs over much needed health cara )ACA) Im a single male 57 pay $319A month. 24% of my income and half my mortgage. why would anyone vote republican. Kansas that no religious law created outside the US Could be enforced inside the US. Where was the bible written south of Ohio? UhNO the middle east, the bible is a document from a foreign land.
Realitycheck
Take all their money, and jobs and business away, then they can pray to their “LOL” CEO Jesus, to send them help and food LOL, lets see i their fiction god
can really “LOL” help them, religious freaks.
Giancarlo85
@tusgold: Most republican shitheads are in bed with the defense contractors and super rich. Take a look at that disgusting mess of a budget they passed… they cut healthcare and education, increasing tax cuts for the wealthy and increasing spending for the military.
These assholes are misguided to the extreme.
jwtraveler
If I had any interest in basketball or auto racing, I’d boycott Indiana. But as I don’t, I’ll just continue to ignore it.
Kirk Guadalupe
So as a gay man I can start a business in Indiana and discrimate for religious reasons all the business which discriminate. How about starting a booze and cigarette distribution biz.
Kangol
Well, this wouldn’t be the first time states in the US have had legalized discrimination against certain groups and classes of people on the books, but unlike in the past, when many people just looked the other way at legalized discrimination against African Americans, which was the law of the land all over the US to extreme (Jim Crow) or lesser (redlining, etc.) degrees, or Mexican Americans, or Asian Americans, etc., people of all backgrounds are outraged at Indiana’s new legislation.
“Religious freedom” is a just a code to allow discrimination and oppression, and Indiana deserves to be fully boycotted, as does any other state that takes away our human rights and equality. It’s 2015, not 1915 or 1815.
We should never, ever look back! BOYCOTT INDIANA!
Alex Rothwell
I hope so. I hope super nasty for him.
GG
Engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
? Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), written in 1883.
EverybodySayLove
I’m wondering if Midwest Bearfest will be affected…
Phillip Donkin
Well that’s 21st Century Christianity for you: Very Fucking Ugly!
Kevin White
We are talking about a state that elected a Ku Klux Klan member as their Governor in 1925.
Krakon2006
In this country “Freedom of Religion” means free to worship, gather and practice your faith. HOWEVER, because everyone has that same right and there will be times when two or more religions will have opposing views EVERYONE must then be Civil with one another, unless our politicians would prefer the “Holy Wars” found in other countries?
We can not pick and choose who has rights and who doesn’t! This is the UNITED States of America and this country shall make no law favoring one religion over another, that is not while we still have our Constitution by which all Americans by our status are required to live by, regardless of your faith or bigotries because we have our freedom to be who we are without exception. If one assaults another then and only then do they forfeit that right. We don’t hurt one another and we live and let live, that is the path to true peace and a free society.
If you wish to live in a Christian Nation then move to the Holy City and kiss the ring of Pope Francis! Otherwise, be Civil and trade on the open market as an American, do not discriminate your patrons and remember no one is telling anyone that they can’t be Christian, but it would seem that there are those Christians who say “You can not be anything but Christian!” So, who is fighting who? How American is that mentality? Huh? Either freedom is for everyone or it is for no one and this path will lead to more violence, vandalism, bigotry and mortality rates going up and up!
Martin Luther King marched for freedom to rid this country of racism and inequality to set our nation down a proper course toward peace and ultimately paid for that belief with his life. So did Harvey Milk who thought he could make a difference about homophobia, but he too paid with his life… and Jesus, who believed he had a powerful message from God himself was put to death because of jealousy and bigotry all in the name of religion! So, I ask you, these “Politicians” who believe they are protecting religion by enacting this horrific piece of legislature, how many more people have to suffer, be bullied and pay with their lives all in the name of religion?
We are free. Then live free and allow others to live too! With harm to no one, I say it is time America became the land that it is, a land that stands as “ONE NATION indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!!”…
Realitycheck
What happen to the separation of state and church?
And why hasn’t a federal Judge already struck down this law?
Sluggo2007
It’s Indiana. Who wants to go there anyway? Lets’ send all their kind to Indiana and they can all wallow in their misery together.
jason smeds
Mike Pence is ugly, and so is his wife.
Milk
@Kevin St-laurent: Because it’s an easy and shiny subject the corrupted politicians prefer. There’s no accountability like creating job, fix the infrastructure, students loans the economy. This is the kind of gutter politics you see banana republic like Uganda and Russia like to play to divert the attention away from real crisis a legit politician would face. Just keep pointing the finger at the gays they will keep their jobs
Charli Girl
As an American Trucker…. Go get your own freight!!
I won’t spend a dime in your state or help to bring anything TO YOUR STATE!!
Giancarlo85
I wonder where the gay republicans are on here, like MCHG (AKA BJ)? Ready to defend the republican party? Where are these clowns?
Paton41
I’m glad my partner and I live in northern California.
Derek Williams
Next thing that will happen is a random straight person will be mistaken to be gay and be kicked out of a restaurant owned by a religious person under the “freedom of religion” law. He will then be able to sue the restaurant, because since he isn’t gay, the restaurant was wrongfully enforcing its “deeply held religious belief” against someone who wasn’t a member of a disliked minority which the Religious Freedom law allows them to refuse to serve.
flexdoc
http://www.ranker.com/list/companies-headquartered-in-indiana/the-working-man?page=1&utm_expid=16418821-89.n7jb3LDfQ06OulFy_zY6Dw.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ranker.com%2Flist%2Fcompanies-headquartered-in-indiana%2Fthe-working-man%3Fpage%3D2%26fb_ref%3DDefault&fb_ref=Default
McShane
Hate to admit it, but@jason smeds: This is the funniest comment you’ve ever come up with.
You’re still a miserable son of a bitch.
Dakotahgeo
@McShane: THANK YOU! We’ve known for quite a while that smeds is on meds!
Roger Honeycutt
Send emails to visitindiana travel
Kieran
New state motto:
“Indiana: The Mississippi of the North”
msfrost
The law violates the First Amendment.
GayEGO
Excellent! May these Indiana GOP government employees that discriminate against American citizens feel the brunt of their actions as we have for many many years.
George Paterni
DUMB ASS!!
Paco
@Derek Williams: I’m thinking something else will happen. A gay baker will refuse to make a religious themed cake and then there will be a Fox News storm of talking heads using that as proof why “Christians” need these laws to protect them from discrimination, since Gay isn’t a religion and not protected by the law.
Kevin Nichols
good
Realitycheck
@Paco:
Paco, I bet there are plenty of organizations ready to take this to court, all is needed is for
any bigot/religious establishment to enforce the law, this will immediately give cause for a law suit,
I wouldn’t be surprised if some business was even baited in to it.
Then up the courts, and as soon as it reaches federal level, the law is tossed out the window.
I wonder if there is a way to take this directly to a federal judge since it violates the constitution.
jimontp
@Bellamy: How do we know what Amazon products come from, or are shipped, from Indiana?
I can’t find any way on Amazon’s website to ask. I tried.
jimontp
@flexdoc: Thanks for the link. It’s hard to see which company’s to target ( a couple of pharmaceuticals like Eli Lily that most people have no alternative for their prescription drugs, a couple of moving companies, but I haven’t moved in years), And then there is Delta Faucets, headquartered in Indiana. AHA, how many Delta faucets have I bought? How many gays and lesbians go to Home Depot or Loew’s and wonder, should I buy the Delta or the Moen? Well, now you know, and let Delta know that you won’t be buying any faucets from companies in Indiana, the capital of discrimination.
Damon Robbins
Indiana Governor Pence’s office can be reached at 317-232-4567 call to voice your disgust !
Matt G
I live in Indianapolis
I have a queer friend that works for Salesforce here at the Indianapolis office- he has been offered a 10-15k relocation package because of this
It’s ridiculous
Zombie_Killer
Who says there are no NAZI’s left in the world…
poconobear
maybe the us should have only 49 states and get rid of Indiana and any state like it.
Josh Thurman
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/27/19-states-that-have-religious-freedom-laws-like-indianas-that-no-one-is-boycotting/?tid=sm_fb
Eloweez Rainbowz
Good. He can back peddle all he wants. We already know who he is at his core
Zenguy
@Derek Williams:
Why aren’t leaders stepping up and making this sensible points? The religious freedom bullshit scares the hell out of me. It gives them the right – an open door to discriminate, at will against anyone or anything based on their beliefs aka their religion.
Do these idiots and wing nuts who are power to pass laws have any respect that we live in a secular society? Religion has it’s place in society, but should not influence or govern; the church and state are separate for the benefit of fairness and civility.
The mess in the middle east(endless wars, death and destruction)is largely the result of societies suppressed,ruled and dominated by religion. Why do politicians who cater to similar beliefs fail to see the parallels and similarities?
Zenguy
@Derek Williams:
Why aren’t leaders stepping up and making this sensible points? The religious freedom bullshit scares the hell out of me. It gives people the right – an open door to discriminate — at will, against anyone or anything based on their beliefs aka their religion.
Do these idiots and wing nuts who have the power to pass laws have any respect that we live in a secular society? Religion has it’s place in society, but should not influence or govern; the church and state are separate for the benefit of fairness and civility.
The mess in the middle east(endless wars, death and destruction)is largely the result of societies suppressed,ruled and dominated by religion. Why do politicians who cater to similar beliefs fail to see the parallels and similarities?
Ronald J Fabian
1EqualityUSA
All of these law suits are nipping away at our community. Imagine what we could do with all of the money going to fight these vectors. It will be a fine day when equality is finally attained. We can focus on other issues that interest us, rather than swatting at swarms of mosquitoes.
Atomicrob
If you really want to see the real Governor Pence in action, visit the perennially anti-gay “Advance America” website created by lobbyist Eric Miller who stood behind Pence when he signed the bill into law . . . http://www.advanceamerica.com/index.php
tusgold
The NCAA needs to step up and move the championship just like the NFL was going to do in Arizona. Don’t let these bigots fool you the only coloy color they approve of is green.
Cam
Indiana I think has 4 hate groups that claim Christianity as their basis. It will be interesting when those groups start claiming that they don’t have to work with, provide services, or allow business to be done with Jews or Blacks, or Latinos. I’m sure the governor will pretend that they didn’t know that was going to happen.
Remember, the Mormons used their own religion as an excuse to discriminate against blacks up until around 1980.
1EqualityUSA
I would imagine the the conservative supreme court would make this social issue “go away” for the Republicans in a tidy fashion, in time for 2016.