And what's wrong if gays want a cake to go to a person who will freely bake one for them? What Right does anyone have to dictate how business are run? YOU? Get over it, as of this morning, Pence has the backing of the state voters and we have his back. The whiners can go to China where the Rights are highly valued and they can tell everyone else what do to, freely. Don't like it here (I love it) don't come here stirring up trouble. Go someplace else, say, Queerlyfornia?
your best is based on feelings. The heterosexuals tend to lead with thought, not feelings. This the best ya got? hahahahahahaha See, you like many others don't understand the measures. This law protects someone other than the gays. ...and I see you have a problem with that. How tyrannical of the gays. You don't own the world, so get over it.
Living right across the river (10 minutes) from Indiana, I have already noted that more than a few people I know are avoiding crossing the bridges into that State. Personally I tended to avoid it long before this law due to the backward and unkempt nature of much of the State. Many businesses however are pulling out of investment there in protest...which Indiana simply cannot afford. "Angie’s List had planned to expand it’s Indianapolis headquarters until the new law was passed. Now, according to Bloomberg, the company has backed off its plans. Angie’s List has made it no secret that the reason it has decided to scuttle expansion plans is because if feels Indiana’s move isn’t friendly to the business climate. Angie’s List has officially pulled its proposal for expansion from the Indianapolis city council. That withdrawal means the city will lose out on at least $40 million in the investment." http://www.inquisitr.com/1964494/angies-list-latest-company-threatening-to-boycott-indiana/ Does not look good going forward.
Of course discrimination of a minority is popular. Bigotry usually is. It shows why civil rights protection is necessary in the first place and why 'uppity' blacks had to sit down at segregated lunch-counters, alongside outsider 'troublemakers, forcing themselves onto where they weren't wanted. Hundreds of heros and heroines sat, waited to be beaten and hauled off to jail for trespass. The good bigoted 'Christians' of Alabama had Wallace's back too. Nothing very original in this right to refuse service story.
can't make omelets with pissing someone off...... There's not enough gays to impact this businesses in Indiana. It still isn't going to change. If you read the law carefully, it actually does protect both sides. It merely says that just because your gay, you don't deserve special privileges Your not coming here is such a blow to us.......................not - - - Updated - - - 2% of the population is not a minority, It is an aberration
I see no reason to look at Indiana negatively over this..... but good luck boycotting a state. lol....
Americans and American businesses are free to boycott any state as a means of protesting the sanctioning of discrimination against any group. That is another democratic aspect of capitalism. Those who wish to license discrimination against gays have been trying to force their agenda on others, but equality is being achieved, even in the most backward enclaves. There are denizens of these forums who have hyped the rectitude of sports celebrity Charles Barclay and promoted him as their moral standard. The evangatollas who shamelessly use a religion as an excuse for their bigotry have no place in America.
While I'm sure the Indiana economy will suffer greatly from your boycott, you have to understand that not everyone has a problem with this. This isn't about refusing milk to a gay customer, this is about providing a cake to a gay wedding. And other situations like that. As we have seen from the 19 other states who already had this law in place. And all the numerous discrimination incidents that have NOT happened. As for signs, those have been around along time. And in those states, turns out most Christian business owners have them.
The real question is not SHOULD, but WILL, and it's starting already. And it will be a lot more than 4% since many heteros are sympathetic. Most people don't care but they are also not going to lose business by continuing to deal with Indiana. I feel a little sorry for Indiana business owners who are hetero but hey, shows you what happens when the conservatives take over.
You mean conservatives like Bill Clinton that signed the same bill in 1993 with over 90% of the Congress agreeing and the same standard that SCOTUS uses in legal cases?
and you don't know what the law says. You are only presenting incorrect assumptions. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in...ass-an-anti-gay-bill-2015-03-30?siteid=yhoof2 - - - Updated - - - By your own admission, the gays run this country and our beliefs? isn't that the definition of tyranny?
And those Christian businesses are free to operate as they choose. The Anti-fight crowd just wants to dominate all of the businesses that aren't marching lockstep with the gay agenda.
Yes and we can tell people that every business that doesn't state they won't discriminate should be boycotted.
Yes, but that brings up the interesting question of just what they produce that people can boycott; and economically speaking, would they even notice?
No one has claimed otherwise. Go for it.... and good luck. If a business closes down over this, then that's their choice.... their problem. Unfortunately for you guys... online fauxrage isn't going to affect them though.
I don't care. I've never been. Don't know one thing about that state besides the Colts, who I already can't stand anyway. I don't support religious laws that discriminate. I don't support Saudi Arabia and Iran's laws anywhere near my country. This should be a free country. Sure a state should have rights, but not rights to discriminate against law-abiding citizens. This is 2015. Not the 1800's where people thought there were witches and that blacks were 2/3rds a person.
What's funny is that this law is really going to go unnoticed. People are not going to start being discriminated against just because of a silly law. If a business can't survive a boycott, then too bad for them. I don't see that happening though. What I do see is less lawsuits. That said... I'm sure the Christian bakers are upset that the gays will boycott them.
Hey . . . losing one paying customer per decade is . . . serio--hahahahaha! Sorry . . . is serious business!
This law doesn't discriminate in the slightest. If business owners do, then they need a valid reason for it. This law just allows the open market to determine their fate.... not a liberal judge.
It's really the same thing. It's people legally allowed to discriminate. It is in no way different if I owned a fast food joint and I enforced a "No Chinese People Allowed" rule. Just dumb
