[Indiana University law professor] Conkle said Friday, “It is as if you just keep repeating something often enough it takes on a life of its own.” So this professor guy – he’s only just now figuring this out? Death panels? Benghazi? It’s Indiana – I wonder how often he’s invoked those “facts”?
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I guess the ultimate wrong is really just catching on because this type of law does exist in 19 other states. That’s about 40% of the US and its hard to avoid that many states for businesses. A collective effort needs to be organized.
Indiana, Arkansas, Georgia, they happen to be in the spotlight right now but every state that has these laws needs to be publicly shamed as well.
Basically, its all red states as expected with Arizona having tried and failed.
I boycott Arizona no matter the failure but just because they tried and of course because of the papers please and gun idiocy.
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“I’m more concerned about making sure that everyone knows they can come in here and feel welcome,” Ballard said.
Than perhaps his State shouldn’t have passed a law allowing folks to legally hate on each another . . . . .
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When their bigotry begins to affect their pocketbooks, laws change. Most of us can easily avoid Indiana.
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So, I wonder how they would feel if a Muslim cabdriver decides not to pick up a woman traveling without a head cover? Or a Muslim hotel owner who decides not to rent a room to a woman traveling alone? They do realize that Christianity is not the only religion out there, don’t they? Ironically, this could lead to an opening for Shariah type beliefs, albeit on an informal basis.
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I completely agree. They can trot out a whole university worth of professors and it won’t change the fact that these scumbag politicians were pandering to their right wing nut job base. Whether the law is ever actually used to discriminate is beside the point. It was enacted to allow discrimination. Period. #boycottindiana
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The idea that a business in a state has to post a sign declaring their willingness to serve everyone makes the unconstitutionality of the law seem self-evident.
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“Christian” businesses will of course recognize that their Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. workers can take their religious holidays off without penalty.
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Religion just feeds the ego and nothing good ever comes of that.
Religion must die.
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First, you must acknowledge that these people are not Christians. They are hateful bigots. Some are just really dumb and believe what their dogmatic churches have preached. Some just hate because they have to have something to make themselves feel superior over someone else. Either way, it’s ignorance. The majority of younger people in this country, thankfully, are smarter than these neandrethals and do not think this way. They see these laws as the discrimination it is. Hopefully, there will be a Supreme Court case at some point that will strike down the premise behind these laws and make them all moot. Even mainstream Christian Churches are one by one becoming all inclusive to gay people. The people that push and pass these Bills need to be voted out. I personally support all the boycotting because I think a strong message needs to sent that discrimination has consequences. It is unfortunate that open minded people in Indiana who are in business will feel the pain too.
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That’s their argument? “It’s okay, because you can probably find some Hoosiers who won’t act like total a-holes and then pretend it’s a religious practice.”
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“I’m more concerned about making sure that everyone knows they can come in here and feel welcome,” Ballard said."
If you want people to feel welcomed Mr Ballard, then stop with this discriminatory law. It’s a matter of simple human decency.
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You are not the only one. I think HL lost a lot of women with their legal stunt. There are also a lot of us that would rather be run over by a truck than enter a Wal-mart too.
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FYI…his name is Mike Jacobs (R-Brookhaven)
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From Wiki
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people”.
Karl Marx
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I stand with you with will not shop at any businesses that have discriminatory policies or treat employees unfairly. Papa Johns, Walmart and Hobby Lobby will not fold because they don’t have my business, but I feel obligated to “put my money where my mouth is”.
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Conkle, who has written extensively on religious legal issues, said he didn’t know of any cases under the similar state laws or the federal statute, which dates to 1993, where a court had sided with a religious objector in a discrimination case.
So then, WHY do we need this law?
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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-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. But keep the gays and lesbians away from me- I am a Christian.
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Cons are spinning the story how Keystone is going to create 42,000 jobs across a half dozen states. This piece of religious hysteria legislation is predicted to cost 75,000 jobs for the city of Indianapolis alone.
Cons don’t really care about creating jobs, they are only concerned with fulfilling the wishes of their special interests.
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Its a case of the religious bigots catering to those catering businesses. Its also truly disheartening to see how their bogus rationale for needing this law is about as shallow as their puny little Christian hearts.
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