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« on: February 18, 2015, 01:58:21 PM »

what started the hysteria about this again?
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2015, 10:42:33 AM »

The text of this law is so bare that really the news story should be "Indiana legalizes all drugs, ritualistic human sacrifice, and Sharia Law."
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2015, 08:49:38 AM »

Are you seriously quoting H L Mencken? A man who was a critic of democracy and believed strong men had the right to rule the weak? A man who conflated 'race' with caste and talked about racial stocks? A man that said talking to a coloured women was like speaking to a child?

I mean seriously?

A man who said this;  'The educated negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a negro. He is, in brief, a low-caste man, to the manner born, and he will remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him.'

You are quoting HIM to back up your argument?

Uncomfortably enough, Mencken was in many ways the intellectual godfather of New Deal liberalism...

I guess in the same way Hitler was the godfather of Israel, yeah, that's true.
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« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2015, 01:27:35 PM »

The new language specifically includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/02/indiana-lgbt-protections_n_6992184.html

Considering that was most of the motivation behind the bill, what exactly is the point of it now?  What new protection to "religious liberty" are the fine, good-natured folk of the Hoosier State now afforded? 

The clarification more or less says that you can't discriminate against LGBT's in cities/counties that have nondiscrimination ordinances that cover LGBT discrimination. You can still do it in locations that don't have these ordinances. You can also still discriminate for other reasons - such as the fact that the customer voted for Obama or is an athiest - as long as you claim you're doing it for religious reasons.

So they are trying to repeal it in Indianapolis and the Chicago suburbs to stop the protest and let the country bumpkin voters have it still.
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