Pence signed it: Add Indiana to the list of states with "religious freedom" laws

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The ink is barely dry on the law...

http://nationalreport.net/marcus-bachmann-refused-service-indiana-store-owner-assumed-gay/

I realize that the National Report isn't as (in)famous as The Onion, but you do realize that was a satirical piece, not a real piece of journalism, right?

No, I had absolutely no idea.

A positive development this is.

[Simfan34]

An interesting radio interview here with a business owner:

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/03/28/listen-indiana-restaurant-owner-pledges-to-refuse-service-to-gays/

He's proud of the law and lying to gay people so they leave his restaurant but not proud enough to openly say which restaurant it is. That should be part of these laws; they need to advertise who they won't serve, if not serving certain people is that important to them.

This is ridiculous. The point of the law is to prevent people from being forced from being involved in things they consider immoral, not a blanket pass for discrimination. Gay people eating wouldn't count, I think.

[Simfan34]

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...

[Simfan34]

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.

Yes, that's right- that statement was categorically wrong. Don't know what I was thinking there. Yikes.

[Simfan34]

Mayor Of Indianapolis Signs Executive Order Protecting LGBT People:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/30/greg-ballard_n_6972928.html

Connecticut Bans State Funded Travel to Indiana
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/30/connecticut-indiana-boycott-lgbt_n_6969684.html

Indiana GOP Plays Stupid on Backlash
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/30/indiana-anti-gay-law_n_6969286.html

What hypocrisy, considering Connecticut has the same exact law in place.