Discussion: North America's Largest Tabletop Game Convention Tells IN Gov. Not To Sign Anti-Gay Bill

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Governor Pence responded, ā€œWeā€™d rather hate homos than improve our stateā€™s economy.ā€

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Hold it somewhere close to Vermont! I would love to attend!

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Money talks, bullshit walks.

One of the detriments associated with a free market system, bitches.

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Bravo GenCon but expecting sense from Penceā€¦now thatā€™s fantasy and science fiction.

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Gen Con issues empty threat - dick head puss bag governor laughs - PULL ON YOUR GIANT METAL BALLS GenCon and do the right thing and tear up the contract !!!

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Any good attorney could get out of that contract easily.

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Break the contract! I would donate money to help cover the fees.

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Iā€™m sure there are plenty of states that will gladly welcome the business.

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I love that the Geeks (my people) are fighting the fight, but, shesh, they sound like Le Frog from ā€œFlushed Away:ā€

If you sign this bill, we shall leave . . .immediately!

What about the contract?

We leaveā€¦ in five years!

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They need to have the courage of their convictions and move the convention. The passage of a state law that discriminates against your attendees is a substantial change in circumstances that justifies your breaking your contract and looking elsewhere.

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Setting aside the Constitutional questions, which will eventually be confronted by the Supreme Court, the answer to laws such as this is obvious. If they donā€™t want people they hate around, then go somewhere else. I donā€™t advocate that solution for residents, but for conventions and voluntary situations, by all means take your dollars elsewhereā€¦to places where you are welcomed regardless of your religion, life style, or other discriminatory issues.

As for residents, itā€™s time for openly challenging these bigots. Show them there is a cost for treating you as second class citizens.

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Man, I loved that line!

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Gen Con is contractually barred from taking its convention anywhere else before 2021. By then, Mike Pence will be long gone from office, and this will be someone elseā€™s problem. Meanwhile, Governor Pence can reap the short-term political benefits of this pandering to his base.

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I would argue that the implementation of that state law would invalidate the lease.

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I think they should just assert a religous belief that it is wrong to transact with bigots.

Easily done.

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Indiana: The chemical pollution high may be limited to Gary, but their gay hatred is statewide.

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I believe it will be easy to get out of the contract and Gen Con should do so.

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Iā€™m a Hoosier: I have had to suffer with that insufferable man as governor - he had the ego to believe that if he left a safe House of Reps seat, including in the higher reaches of the Rethuglican majority, for the governorship, that his party would turn to him in 2016. Not to be.

Pence: his visage reminds me of the speech by the ā€˜school marmā€™ in Blazing Saddles when, in referring to Gov LePetomane, she was also talking about Mike Pence: 'the biggest asshole in the territory!"

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And Pence is saying ā€œIā€™ll be doing other things like Presidenting when the economic impact hits in 2021ā€.

Though I admire Gen Conā€™s statement, they are not dealing from any real position of influence on this idiot.

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