Discussion: Indiana Gov. Pence Signs Anti-Gay Religious Freedom Bill Into Law

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Just canceled my reservations for July30-August 2 in Indy. No Gen Con for me this year.

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Yeah, this’ll never come up even once at the NCAA Final Four next week. Right.

Expect the Colts to serve Hot Bigoty Dogs at Lucas Oil Field this fall.

Also, Stanford grad top student liberal Springsteen fan Andrew Luck is headed into the last year of his contract. I’m not liking the Colts position heading into negotiations for another.

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“You’ll never vote for me. Why should I care?”

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Not in a position to cancel anything but I’ll say this: I was in Indianapolis once for a convention and hated it. Ugly, charmless town, millions of check-cashing places and other signs of an exploited underclass, unfriendly people, at least the ones I encountered, and I got a rash from the exercise equipment in the hotel. Oh, but that Indiana cuisine! Ha ha just kidding. Come to southeastern Pennsylvania for conferences and vacay, great food, tons to do, near everything else you’d want to do. People aren’t terribly friendly compared to California, say, but they’re not actively unfriendly either. Gays are totally accepted, I hasten to add. Screw Indiana. I apologize to all the nice Indianans I didn’t meet. Perhaps you could talk to your legislators about the situation if you’re so nice and all.

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“Pence said signing the bill into law makes sure that “religious liberty” is completely protected in the state.”

You know, “protected in the state” at the expense of civil rights.

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So, in Indiana one’s personal freedom is less important than one’s religious freedom. UN-believable. The Dominionists are really starting to take over. Well, I have friends in Indy who plan to boycott all businesses which discriminate. They plan to ask shop keepers where they stand on serving “those other folk” before making any purchases.

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“The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion, but today, many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action,” Pence said in a statement.

Tough shit. If you want to live in a theocracy, move to the Middle East. Or, Indiana, which is much the same thing, but without the interesting terrain.

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In Indiana, this ‘religious freedom’ trumps road maintenance and repair so, chances are, you won’t survive the drive to the right wing hate bakery.

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Freedom from taxes…freedom to hate and discriminate at will and be protected by the state. What a good racket.

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." ____Pascal

And BTW: Being homosexual is not a choice, but being a depraved and loathsome fu*king religious zelot and bigot is.

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Well, at least conservatives won’t be able to blame Democrats for the contemporary version of Jim Crow laws

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“…many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action,” Pence said in a statement.


A gay couple walking into a bakery and ordering a wedding cake constitutes "government action"?
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I believe that the proponents genuinely believe this is an issue of religious freedom. But they look at it in a myopic vacuum. It isn’t about religious freedom or not. The question is whether religious freedom trumps human rights. In this Country, under our Constitution, the answer is clear. Human rights win. Otherwise, a religion that believes in slavery or Sharia Law would be able to legislate human rights violations with enough legislators in place.

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Dumb dumb dumb. It is partly funny because the spin now is that he was always for this when he always brushed his opinion on it away before the election.

Religious liberty trumps liberty of any other sort, outside guns, to the GOP.

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Cue the outrage from these same “conservatives” the first time a Muslim business owner denies access/sales/business to a Christianist. Good God, it’s like right-wingers aren’t even trying to hide their ignorance and bigotry any more.

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There are places to practice religion, like houses of worship, and one’s home. Selling food in a restaurant is not a practice of religion. That type of business does not have the right to refuse service to a law-abiding citizen, based simply upon who that citizen is.

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And now the no-go zones are made real.

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Exactly what religion is is that won’t tolerate gay people? It certainly isn’t Christianity. Jesus had a lot to say about ethics, but he was totally silent on the issue of homosexuality. On the other hand, Jesus did insist that his disciples should love everyone.

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They really should call it what it is: “Right to discriminate”.

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Actually in Indiana it’s part of the citizenry’s genetic code. Close examination of their DNA reveals an unbalanced chromosomal translocation, occurring between chromosome 21 and chromosome 14, closely mimicking the effects of Down’s Syndrome.

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