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And the bad news continues to roll in.
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I have to ask. Why were all these people going to Indiana to begin with?
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I guess they’d better include Arkansas now.
Unbelievable.
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Watch the Teabaggers compress their lips, cross their arms and tell the rest of the country, “You can’t tell us what to do with OUR fags.”
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That’s right. A cold civil war.
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I asked our Governor, Kate Brown (OR), via email if she would follow in the footsteps of Governors of Washington State, Connecticut and New York, and ban state employees non-essential travel to Indiana. It would be cool if a number of States did the same.
When will people call for Pence’s resignation? That Arkansas duplicated the idiocy is pretty amazing. They deserve all the scorn that is coming.
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They may as well include Arkansas now since they passed the same bill today. Ah well live 'n learn the GOP way. One would think (there’s that pesky word again) that Arkansas would have picked up on the crap Indiana is rightfully getting and tried to avoid same.
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Actually from my point of view all this is unnecessary cuz there’s no better way of putting it than the 1st amendment. Government should butt out of religion. And the 14th amendment guarantees us equal protection under the law (or it should.) Ergo no need for Pence’s law unless the object was to codify discrimination.
There is no need for any government to defend any religion.
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Nobody goes to Arkansas.
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Hot Springs seems to be popular.
But it’s not going to lose much for Arkansas as much as Indiana.
14 other states are considering this same type of folly?
Indiana is going to be the one to watch.
Edit: Walmart’s protestations are weak sauce. Leggett and Platt is also based there.
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I certainly do hope that they start issuing the bans for Arkansas.
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The NYT at the very end of the article:
But the Indiana law has some differences from the federal law, and most of the state laws, that critics say are significant, including a provision explicitly stating that it applies to the exercise of religious beliefs by businesses as well as individuals and religious groups. The idea that a for-profit business has religious rights, and can cite them in contesting government action, was not widely considered until recently. But last year the Supreme Court upheld that principle in the case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores.
Another difference between Indiana’s law and most similar ones is that it says businesses can use religious freedom as a defense against lawsuits brought by individuals, not just those filed by the government.
These states run by the bigots are waiting for the backlash before they commit.
So, keep coming after Indiana and Pence.
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I have to say…I’m slightly disappointed in the level of schadenfreude being expressed here today. We should be wallowing in this like pigs in fresh shit. These conservative asshats finally pushed one button too many and now they’re taking a huge rasher of shit for it from the entire country and, very importantly, from the business sector, putting real-world monetary and economic consequences right in front of them on the table to see, feel and contemplate. Sure, it’s a sad fucking day when we have to recognize that forcing them to accept that bigotry is wrong and unamerican and goes against everything we stand for as a society requires attaching actual costs to it, instead of them merely knowing right from wrong and actually believing in the things we supposedly believe in…BUT, so be it.
LET THE BELLS RING OUT:
BIGOTRY IS EXPENSIVE, MOTHERFUCKERS, AND WE’RE READY, WILLING AND ABLE TO MAKE IT COST YOU. DING FUCKING DONG.
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I like what the author Stephen King said:
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Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration
act is gay discrimination, pure and simple. You can frost a dog turd,
but it’s still a dog turd.
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Our Governor Malloy tends to be brutally direct. In this instance, it’s incredibly refreshing to have an elected official willing to put into words the obvious: Pence, and all those scared-of-teh-gays folks are bigots.
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Well, in your world, but in the world of “There should be a law that makes people attend church on Sundays” world? The government should be the bulwark against those frenzied sodomites trying to destroy Christianity.
I prefer your world, myself.
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Economic Sanctions: It’s not just for rogue nations anymore.
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I wish there were a way to slap sanctions just on the Indiana state legislature. Recall?
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Sorry but I can’t do anything about this horrid discrimination law. Indiana is the last state that I would ever travel to for any reason. But if any company is based in Indiana and sells anything on the internet - forget getting any business from me. No way. I will check the address of every purchase I make over the internet. Nothing for Indiana. A state lead by bigots.
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