Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act

I hope many other companies follow Salesforce and pull their business from the state.

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Audra's beautiful, angry response

NO AUDRA NO! I LOVE YOU BUT NOT THE HRC!!! ("The world's most expensive catering company!" -- Justin Sayre).


How about Freedom Indiana?

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Updated On: 3/26/15 at 07:50 PM

OMG, I hope we can become besties now!

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The NCAA got out in front of an issue for a change. Their headquarters are in Indianapolis and they're not pleased. Other events that are scheduled there, like the occasional Super Bowl, Final Four, are going to be next in flight from the state. Surprising when the young of this country are growing up how some keep regressing. Indiana is going to regret the day they did this.

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Interesting one but very wrong.

I thought this thread would of got a stronger reaction than this so far, given the amount of a LGBT community on here.

I wonder how this law came about? And by interesting one, which I mentioned on my introduction paragraph is that hard in the UK, recently there was a case of where a Christian bed and breakfast owners, wouldn't allow a gay couple stay in their establishment. This went to both the high court and parliament. So I wonder if that I where this law comes from.

Once again the small bigoted voice of religion wins again. Because they are a cohesive unit.

Thanks for that.

The later was big news here in the UK also.

I don't know if Conservative Frontline is a satire site or not, but I'm calling BS. It's hilarious but a little too on the nose.

the liberal attempt to keep playing nice with religion is puzzling.

as this latest episode shows, it is incapable of playing nice. a cold, dispassionate assessment of the situation is that 90% of the homophobia in the world today comes from religion. this is because when the jewish tribes were cooking up their religion 2000 odd years ago, one of their chief concerns was increasing the number of the tribe. thus it is extremely hostile to any form of sex not involved in procreation. remember that onan was struck dead for jerking off.

even if you don't think gay rights is a real thing, think of the thousands of years of unnecessary misery and guilt inflicted on men from the terrible opprobrium on masturbation--it's only been acknowledged as a healthy activity a decade or so ago. they used to pour hydrochloric acid on boys to keep them from jerking off.

on the flip side, it is true that their victories always turn to ash in their mouths. gay marriage is sweeping the nation in part because prop 8 went through--and with social media, people could see with their own eyes the horror and suffering it causes. so it will be with this indiana law--it is only regrettable so many lives have to be ruined in the interval.

here's the pic from the signing. nice to see nearly everyone surrounding the governor is decked out in holy orders. the plus of this is that the picture will never truly disappear from the internet, and everyone of them in it will have to live down the shame of being there after gay rights are the norm, 20 or 30 years from now. i wonder how they'll lie to their family members by saying they were for gay rights all along, and that they were merely "misinterpreting" the holy books.

https://twitter.com/GovPenceIN/status/581099613123379200

Updated On: 3/28/15 at 01:02 AM

Another aspect of this debacle is the sheer dollars and cents insanity, from a business standpoint. Did no one research the way Arizona (redder than red) responded when that fascista Governor Brewer almost signed the same style legislation? Did any idiot who is a beloved GOP constituent, "a small business owner," stop and pragmatically consider the marketing nightmare for the state in 2015? The backlash already begun? Once blacklisted by a culture increasingly impatient with establishing gay equality, not the opposite. I marvel at the willful employment of ignorance here, the smug refusal to consider implications beyond their immediate self-satisfied photo op. Which, as someone on FB noted, looks like a 3rd rate bus and truck of "Sound of Music."

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The governor and other supporters of the bill are attempting to say that it's identical to the laws in 19 other states and the federal law. Even the article below in the Washington Post takes this mistaken assumption.

It's important to note the distinction: This bill wa the first to accord businesses the same rights as an individual.

Don't let them blame this bill on the other 19 states--or Bill Clinton!

Indiana must own this bigotry and take the consequences.



WASHINGTON POST: 31 states have heightened religious freedom protections

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^ If only the same could be said for you, a self-admitted homophobic bigot.