Discussion: Indiana Officials Scramble To Contain Fallout From New Anti-Gay Bill

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Me too…agnostic, at best. My sister in law was a devout RC all her life until the 2004 election. She did some fund raising for Kerry and got sick of hearing the RC priest “lecture” the parish on the goodness of Bush and the folly of Kerry. One Sunday she wore a small Kerry lapel pin into church and a woman she had known for 20 years walked up to her and tore it off her coat, ripping the fabric… That was the last time she stepped inside a church…or donated money to one.

On a side note, I do like and admire the new Pope. He is quite like the Dalai Lama…

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…and cash.
Don’t forget the one true belief.

WWJB(uy)?

jw1

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The avalanche of bad publicity for Indiana is gaining momentum!

http://reverbpress.com/news/us/indiana-poised-become-national-pariah-thanks-vicious-anti-lgbt-law/

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Jesus was Jewish. He never paid retail.

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Republican Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke wrote that the law “sends the wrong message about Indiana.”

Then… exactly what is the right message?

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Folks in Indianapolis are pissed.

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Yeah, I saw that too. The problem remains, if you want to have some effect by boycotting this kind of discrimination, you have to apply it to like 40% of the country. Or just howl about how you’re going to punish Indiana because it makes you feel better.

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As George Takei said—

If you have to pass laws to hurt a particular group of people to prove your faith and your morals, you have no faith or morals to prove.

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Folks why scramble and try to stem the damage?This is wrought by the people who are supposedly looking after your state…the people you elected…this is what you WANTED.

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and that is to allow religious bigots to refuse service to gay people.

Good point:

Can anyone tell me the difference between a a religious bigot and non-religious bigot… other than one class is now protected against their bigotry?

Carry this out to its logical conclusion and voila… Middle East On Fire in a nutshell for dummies!

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Went to read the story/comments and returned with:

jw1

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Pence got less than 50% of the vote in the gubernatorial race. There are millions of people in Indiana that are violently opposed to this idiocy. They should just keep their mouths shut?

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Anybody with 1/2 a brain would have seen this coming after what happened to Jan Brewer last year. Mike Pence must be dumb as a box of rocks.

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Apparently, not nearly enough of them.

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But…but…we were only thinking about Christians…well, the Born Again kind anyway.

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Indeed. The simple question that should be put to those who support this legislation is, “If someone’s religion tells him that he shouldn’t mix with black people, should he be allowed to refuse to serve blacks?”

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If you are already there, patronizing only those businesses when possible is obviously a good idea. But if you aren’t, boycotting - deciding to go somewhere else or locate your business in some other state - is a good idea too. Indiana doesn’t have much of anything special that some other state doesn’t have. Doing your next convention in some other place etc. will send a very big statement if others also join in. Nothing wrong and a lot right with a boycott.

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You can always extrapolate from these laws what the general tenor of the community is and for Indiana if your not in the majority demographic its not going to be too comfortable there. It sbetter to just stay out of there and leave them to there small world.

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Me too. Hobby Lobby can continue to support communist China without me.

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Don’t know, but the fact that he was a talk radio host at one point speaks volumes. Sorry.

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