Will Republicans ever learn? Indiana governor to sign bill allowing business not to serve gays

[bodecea]

Another state added to the list I don't want to visit:

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
4. Indiana

I would sooner visit Russia or Saudi Arabia, than those four states.

In fact, I would say that Russia is a tolerant utopia in comparison.
If they want to take a hit to their tourism and income they are welcome to it.

I hope they enjoy their illegal immigration problem too: Immigration in Arizona Fact Sheet 2012

ECONOMIC IMPACT

• There were an estimated 278,460 illegal aliens working in Arizona in 2011, approximately 9.3 percent of the total workforce.
• Unemployment in Arizona in January 2012 was 8.7 percent with 262,587 Arizonans officially unemployed.
• Over 10% of children enrolled in public schools (K-12) have parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
• Illegal aliens and their children were found to be 37 percent of the uninsured population in Arizona in 2008, and the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens in Arizona is $320 million annually.
• The total education, medical, and incarceration costs in Arizona due to illegal immigration are $2.6 billion a year.

Please add Texas to your list.

Already done....why won't they secede already?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Market forces did not defeat legalized bigotry ...people being willing to be killed and beaten defeated bigotry and the Neo Bigotry will to be defeated ...make no mistakes about that....

The bigot here is you - in your zeal to deny rights to those who hold religious views in opposition to your goals.

It appears you put your hand of the Koran and swore to destroy the Constitution, tyrant.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Hey Texas if at first you don't secede try try again....

 

[hipeter924]

Another state added to the list I don't want to visit:

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
4. Indiana

I would sooner visit Russia or Saudi Arabia, than those four states.

In fact, I would say that Russia is a tolerant utopia in comparison.
If they want to take a hit to their tourism and income they are welcome to it.

I hope they enjoy their illegal immigration problem too: Immigration in Arizona Fact Sheet 2012

ECONOMIC IMPACT

• There were an estimated 278,460 illegal aliens working in Arizona in 2011, approximately 9.3 percent of the total workforce.
• Unemployment in Arizona in January 2012 was 8.7 percent with 262,587 Arizonans officially unemployed.
• Over 10% of children enrolled in public schools (K-12) have parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
• Illegal aliens and their children were found to be 37 percent of the uninsured population in Arizona in 2008, and the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens in Arizona is $320 million annually.
• The total education, medical, and incarceration costs in Arizona due to illegal immigration are $2.6 billion a year.

Please add Texas to your list.

Sorry, Austin already has an atheist group ( The Atheist Community of Austin ) and hosts The Atheist Experience ( The Atheist Experience TV Show ), so you are going to have to try harder.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

It appears you put your hand of the Koran and swore to destroy the Constitution, tyrant.

Hey you a wing nut

 

[Uncensored2008]

Already done....why won't they secede already?

Why won't San Francisco split of to it's own state? We can have Sane California and inSane Francisco....

 

[ScienceRocks]

Why not? Isn't it their business?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Already done....why won't they secede already?

Why won't San Francisco split of to it's own state? We can have Sane California and inSane Francisco....

Move to Mississippi its the Garden spot of Conservative governance...go for it

 

[Avatar4321]

You know, someday I hope you guys will trust the american people to do the right thing towards their fellow citizens without the desires to force them to our punish them if they don't.

 

[OKTexas]

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Come on Republicans

I know you love to pander to your gay hating base. But are you ever going to learn?

Indiana Governor Mike Pence is ready to sign into law a bill allowing businesses to refuse service to gays for "religious reasons" . All this ten days before the NCAA Final Four comes to Indianapolis. So what was once an opportunity to show the country what a great location his state is for major events, now becomes a poster child for "We hate gays".
See how many Final Fours come back to Indianapolis. Superbowl? Forget it Mike

But at least you got to score points with your gay hating base

Republicans just can't help themselves.






Pence to sign bill allowing businesses to reject gay customers - CNN.com

I really do not understand how selling items to people affects someone's christians beliefs, yet they will sell flowers, cakes to someone on his 2,3,4 marraige. Which according to their own scripture is an abomination and adulterous using their own scripture

I think you should buy the cake and flowers and tell the proprietor that is none of your damn business what I need the cake for besides eating. Because it is not any of their business, their job ends when you purchase the cake or flowers.

Damn, are you clueless or what? I'll leave it to you to figure it out.

Buying cake or flowers from somebody affects their religious beliefs and you think I am confused? Who cares they sell to thieves they sell to divorcees who are more hated by their own God then gays because they broke a covenant! And you think I am confused? Nope religious christians are retarded and are hypocrites who do not even read the bible not know what is in it....let's pick and choose what to follow. And then say we are good christians.....it is laughable this is even a debate or argument

How about you go back and read all my posts in this thread and find out exactly what I've said, then maybe you won't be so confused.

 

[hipeter924]

Another state added to the list I don't want to visit:

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
4. Indiana

I would sooner visit Russia or Saudi Arabia, than those four states.

In fact, I would say that Russia is a tolerant utopia in comparison.
If they want to take a hit to their tourism and income they are welcome to it.

I hope they enjoy their illegal immigration problem too: Immigration in Arizona Fact Sheet 2012

ECONOMIC IMPACT

• There were an estimated 278,460 illegal aliens working in Arizona in 2011, approximately 9.3 percent of the total workforce.
• Unemployment in Arizona in January 2012 was 8.7 percent with 262,587 Arizonans officially unemployed.
• Over 10% of children enrolled in public schools (K-12) have parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
• Illegal aliens and their children were found to be 37 percent of the uninsured population in Arizona in 2008, and the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens in Arizona is $320 million annually.
• The total education, medical, and incarceration costs in Arizona due to illegal immigration are $2.6 billion a year.

Please add Texas to your list.

Already done....why won't they secede already?

It would be good for the deficit if Texas left, as then the federal tax deficit that goes to that state will disappear.

Though the demographics will eventually turn against the GOP in Texas, especially with immigration (legal and illegal) of more tolerant minorities.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

I love the whinny cry babies grabbing victim status on behalf of their filthy bigotry...

 

[Foxfyre]

Another state added to the list I don't want to visit:

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
4. Indiana

I would sooner visit Russia or Saudi Arabia, than those four states.

In fact, I would say that Russia is a tolerant utopia in comparison.
If they want to take a hit to their tourism and income they are welcome to it.

I hope they enjoy their illegal immigration problem too: Immigration in Arizona Fact Sheet 2012

ECONOMIC IMPACT

• There were an estimated 278,460 illegal aliens working in Arizona in 2011, approximately 9.3 percent of the total workforce.
• Unemployment in Arizona in January 2012 was 8.7 percent with 262,587 Arizonans officially unemployed.
• Over 10% of children enrolled in public schools (K-12) have parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
• Illegal aliens and their children were found to be 37 percent of the uninsured population in Arizona in 2008, and the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens in Arizona is $320 million annually.
• The total education, medical, and incarceration costs in Arizona due to illegal immigration are $2.6 billion a year.

I don't know about that. You can be openly gay in any of those states you are boycotting and pretty much nobody would think anything about it. At least no more than you would find in any other state.

But being gay in Russia is a rather dangerous thing:
The Fear of Being Gay in Russia - Nora Fitzgerald and Vladimir Ruvinsky - POLITICO Magazine

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

After National Church Makes A Move On Marriage Equality, Presbyterian Congregations Receive Threats
Last week, the Presbyterian Church (USA), or PC(USA), officially voted to fully embrace marriage equality as a denomination, a historic move celebrated by LGBT advocates and lay Presbyterians alike. But just a few days after the pivotal vote, four different Presbyterian churches in southeast Missouri received an unsigned letter condemning homosexuality and threatening to attack congregations that embrace same-sex marriage.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It appears you put your hand of the Koran and swore to destroy the Constitution, tyrant.

Hey you a wing nut

Tyrant, you're dumb as a dog turd.

{One clever writer on statecraft correctly said that if it is necessary for the realization of a well-known political goal to perform a series of brutal actions then it is necessary to do them in the most energetic manner and in the shortest time, because masses of people will not tolerate the protracted use of brutality. … Now victory over the reactionary clergy is assured us completely. In addition, it will be more difficult for the major part of our foreign adversaries among the Russian emigres abroad, i.e., the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Milyukovites, to fight against us if we, precisely at this time, precisely in connection with the famine, suppress the reactionary clergy with utmost haste and ruthlessness.
Therefore, I come to the indisputable conclusion that we must precisely now smash the Black Hundreds clergy most decisively and ruthlessly and put down all resistance with such brutality that they will not forget it for several decades. … The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and the reactionary bourgeoisie that we succeed in shooting on this occasion, the better because this "audience" must precisely now be tau} - Barack Obama


Wait, that was Vlad Lenin... PotAto Potahto

 

[hipeter924]

Another state added to the list I don't want to visit:

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. Oklahoma
4. Indiana

I would sooner visit Russia or Saudi Arabia, than those four states.

In fact, I would say that Russia is a tolerant utopia in comparison.
If they want to take a hit to their tourism and income they are welcome to it.

I hope they enjoy their illegal immigration problem too: Immigration in Arizona Fact Sheet 2012

ECONOMIC IMPACT

• There were an estimated 278,460 illegal aliens working in Arizona in 2011, approximately 9.3 percent of the total workforce.
• Unemployment in Arizona in January 2012 was 8.7 percent with 262,587 Arizonans officially unemployed.
• Over 10% of children enrolled in public schools (K-12) have parents who are in the U.S. illegally.
• Illegal aliens and their children were found to be 37 percent of the uninsured population in Arizona in 2008, and the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens in Arizona is $320 million annually.
• The total education, medical, and incarceration costs in Arizona due to illegal immigration are $2.6 billion a year.

I don't know about that. You can be openly gay in any of those states you are boycotting and pretty much nobody would think anything about it. At least no more than you would find in any other state.

But being gay in Russia is a rather dangerous thing:
The Fear of Being Gay in Russia - Nora Fitzgerald and Vladimir Ruvinsky - POLITICO Magazine

It isn't just about being gay, as they have all drawn fire for racism or religious intolerance towards other faiths or religious beliefs.

Russia isn't too safe to be gay, but they aren't passing laws that make people think 'blacks/whites only'.

 

[Seawytch]

Stand strong Indiana! Don't let the economic terrorist threats stop you from doing what's right! No more will faggots and their allies be allowed to destroy business using their terrorist acts.

Sure we will. We'll use social media.

Yelpers Take Hilarious Revenge on We Don t Like Fags Restaurant

Have fun kids. Difference is now you cant sue them for no serving your kind or for not being forced to make your cake for your "wedding" I will stop in Indian at a good business JUST to buy or eat there...

I'd have no problem with that...if I were allowed to refuse to serve Christians. I'd also have less of a problem with this law if the bigots had to advertise who they won't sell to.

Why are they such cowards?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Move to Mississippi its the Garden spot of Conservative governance...go for it

The sane half of my state is solid red. Dump the Bay morons and the politics of California would again attract and retain business. Ever notice the ruling democrats only give a shit about a handful of internet billionaires, while the rest of the state sinks?

 

[bripat9643]

For other news on this: George Takei Vows To Boycott Indiana If Governor Signs Religious Freedom Restoration Act

George Takei
Actor/Director · 8,386,678 Likes
· March 24 at 4:13pm · Edited ·
The Governor of Indiana has indicated that he will sign SB101—a law that allows businesses to discriminate against customers based on the proprietors’ religious beliefs. This bill is strikingly similar to one proposed—and vetoed due to public outcry—in Arizona. Such laws harken back to a time where our society was divided, and people of color were banned from white establishments. That is not our nation any longer, and those are not our values.

To the governor and to the legislators in Indiana who support this backward-looking and divisive bill, I say to you this: If it goes into effect, Indiana will be marked as a state where certain people are not welcome, and so we will not visit. We will not spend. And we will not attend events, including GenCon, the world’s largest gaming convention, held in Indianapolis each year. Many fans here are gamers, Governor Pence, and we will demand the convention move out of your state.

Fans, friends and especially you gamers, let Governor Pence know how you feel about this bill. Give him a call:

317-232-4567.

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Yeah, I'm sure that news will have them marching down to the capital forthwith to repeal this bill.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Golly! Some Conservatives sure do not understand what Liberty means!

Uh, "liberty"? One of the liberties guaranteed in the Constitution is the freedom of religion; another one is the freedom of speech; another one is the freedom of association; and another one is the right of private property.

There's no "liberty" that bigoted gay couples get to target Christian business people and then get them fined or jailed, and even bankrupted, for not wanting to service a ceremony that they find spiritually and morally offensive, especially when the gay couple has their choice of plenty of businesses that don't mind servicing their ceremony. That's not "liberty"; that's un-American bigotry and intolerance toward people of faith.

Argued like a lunch counter manager in Woolwoth's circa 1962.

Somehow, Conservative (who consistently provide the resistence to equal rights for all Americans) have calculated bigotry as a constitutionally protected right.

It is a protected right, moron. Freedom of speech means freedom to express bigotry as well as any other idea. It means especially unpopular ideas are protected. The freedom to say whatever is popular is no freedom at all.

It's no surprise that you have no understanding of the Bill of Rights.

Saying you are a bigot is a protected right. Acting as a bigot is not.

George Rocks.

Heard this the other day on Howard:



Laughed and laughed.