how boring must indiana be to think of this as fun

Every Indiana establishment now serves weddings in order to justify their hate. "Why should my Christian bait and tackle shop have to supply the bait and tackle for a gay wedding?"

lol

i would go to that wedding

Honestly at " I choose to be heterosexual" reporter should have just made "O RLY?" face and walked away.

Sadly he did not choose to be a jerk that was something he was born with.

I'm imagining there being this big red alarm in Heaven that goes off any time a gay couple touches a wedding cake and God waking up pissed.

what it really boils down to are many of these extremely Conservative Christians are just upset at their narrowing sphere of influence in the country when in reality some of the "rights" they feel they've lost should never have been granted to them in the first place.

tho they don't understand the concept of "strict scrutiny" either so

LOL

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So we got this news

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/01/indiana-rfra-deal-sets-limited-protections-for-lgbt/70766920/

ILX has eaten two of my attempts to post here but I'll give it another shot. Briefly, I boomeranged pretty quickly from knee-jerk 'burn the whole state to the ground' disgust towards this legislation to astonishment and pride over the booming opposition. I grew up in the midst of a lot of unfortunate bigotry and general small-mindedness (and god knows it's still pervasive, particularly in the southern part of the state) but I've also seen Indiana make a lot of progress over the years. I was just marveling the other day about the number of people who went to my small, rural high school and who have subsequently come out and are still living in the same general area. I cannot imagine that situation being in any way tolerable twenty years ago. I have no desire to ever move back, but I appreciate feeling like I don't have to hate and distance myself from Indiana.

I hear ya, O.L.

I don't want to pat my fellow Arkansans too hard on the back today. I look back on some of my past "Well, the state might be blood red, but there's like at least a dozen of us who meet for coffee every Tuesday," posts with twinges of regret. We took more than just a few steps backward yesterday, but –

I am inspired by the Arkansas folk who put up this installation on the steps of our Capitol:

http://i.imgur.com/DB89jrG.jpg

Or the Arkansans who lined the halls and yelled "Shame on you!" at the legislators who walked through them:

http://i.imgur.com/4hoIaZW.jpg

Or even the woman on the left who was a national name in the political arena long before the guy up on the wall was:

http://i.imgur.com/dVUyR8f.jpg

(Dr. Jocelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General, under the portrait of Skinny Mike Huckabee)

The crazy people got their way, but quite honestly, I don't think they'd be interested in pulling the same stunt again.

I guess Republicans have been so vocal about Sharia Law invading the US because they wanted to do it here first.

Though wait

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/01/govt-and-business-leaders-object-to-ark-religion-bill/70757942/

Repeal these altogether. I do not want to have to join The Church of Walmart when I am 70 and need a job.

The public outcries in both states to these legislations has been a welcome surprise. Not that I didn't know that there would be pockets of people in both states that would feel that way but more than I expected.

maybe we're finally nearing the time when martyr-complexing doesn't carry the weight it used to

Don't understand how you can call yourself a Christian and be for denying people food. That's like the main thing Jesus did!

Not deny people food, but giving it out.

Bible has lots in it about not being lazy, maybe all employees should work 20 hour days.

Is anyone organizing Indiana businesses not run by bigots? It would be nice to isolate the bigots - to see one hateful pizzeria surrounded by shops and restaurants with uniform "everyone welcome" signs.

Folks actually in favor of these bills seem to be a crazy confluence of "gay marriage = endtimes" zealots, and anti-government types of the opinion that any business owner should be able to refuse service for any reason because it's THEIR business.

I agree the huge outpouring of criticism has been surprising, and when it's not just "Hollywood types" but CEOs, it's really heartening to me. Quite honestly I feel that people like that pizza family upthread are a very small minority. There are plenty of Indiana businesses not on board with this imo.

Indiana "turning blue" will not keep the American population from doing so this century

So Tweedy cancelled a show in Indianapolis, punishing his fans for living in a city which does have anti-sexual discrimination laws, because it's in a state which doesn't.

The Arkansas bill explicitly raises religious concerns(in the business sense) over everything else, incl. civil rights.

Don Allred ‏@0wlred

The Supreme Court's expected ruling on gay marriage won't be enough. We need an updated Civil Rights Act ( ditto Voting Rights Act btw).
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um cancelling the show is good, not bad, it's the message that counts right now

good publicity

So Tweedy cancelled a show in Indianapolis, punishing his fans

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http://www.songkick.com/artists/490682-jeff-tweedy

Oh yeah, and Kansas hasn't gotten enough attention: Gov. Sam Brownback removed anti- gay bias protection from state hiring regulations.

Just go to Louisville it's less than 2 hours away.

Or take Megabus and it's less than $12 round trip.

just go to the slippery noodle instead

from the memories pizza yelp page

The liberals ask for tolerance and give none. I hate you more than ISIS.
Great pizza.

"the liberals just don't tolerate our stupid bigoted beliefs, what hypocrites"

My wife is speaking at a conference in Indiana next week and suddenly our state has stopped paying for any travel to Indiana. The conference was already paying travel and lodging, and angry and embarrassed conference organizers contacted her today and said they'd cover the per diem that her university was no longer going to pay for. I'm curious what the vibe at the conference is going to be like.

The law is now "fixed," but a law professor explains the basic employment etc law problems still in place, pretty much across most(or a lot) of the USA:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/04/02/indiana_religious_freedom_law_the_fix_still_doesn_t_protect_gay_hoosiers.html?wpsrc=fol_tw

@BryanJFischer
The pizzeria owners are the new Anne Frank. Hiding in a house in fear for their lives.

lol what

Hiding in fear until the check for half a million comes from wingnuttia

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/3/8339383/indiana-memories-pizza-religious-freedom-crowdfunding-campaign

ah yes, these Anne Frank like situations all play out the same way

tbf Anne Frank got some really mean Yelp reviews

Now the gays are going to go to some other pizza place to cater their wedding.

i am opposed to pizza marriage.

next thing you know pizzas will be marrying calzones, think of the children

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Wilco uncanceled their show today.

I love how so many of the people in their comments say things along the lines of "politics and music shouldn't mix" and I'm like WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED FOR THE LAST MILLION YEARS?

I love how so many of the people in their comments say things along the lines of "politics and music shouldn't mix" and I'm like WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED FOR THE LAST MILLION YEARSARE THE NEW PROTEST SINGERS?

Haha everyone already cancelled their babysitters and now the Wilco show is back on? Some teens are gonna be so pissed.

Did Wilco explain why they are un-cancelling? Is money just too important to let go?

My guess was that they are only punishing their fans, who likely don't support these laws anyways.

But won't the money their fans spend that night go into the local economy and end up in the coffers of oppressive state power?