Boycott travel to Indiana, boycott travel to Arkansas! Not only travel and tourism to Arkansas and Indiana is targeted in various initiatives to boycott. Indiana Governor this morning said: “This law does not give businesses the right to deny services to anyone." Governor Mike Pence asks for a legislative fix.
In the meantime New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio today both banned state-business travel to Indiana. NY State Senator Michael Gianaris introduced a bill to ban state travel to any state with a similar law in the future.
Similar banns had been put in place to not allow tax payers funded travel for City Officials from Seattle and Philadelphia as well as a growing number of other cities to fund travel to Indiana or Arkansas.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on March 26 signed into law a bill that legalizes discrimination, allowing businesses to refuse service to customers simply because they are gay or lesbian. Further, since Governor Pence claims disingenuously that it is about religious freedom, his law protects any business owner who refuses to hire someone of a different religion from their own.
The Flight Attendant Union on Monday called on the state of Indiana to fix its controversial religious freedom law that may allow businesses to discriminate against gay people.
"We call on the Indiana State legislature to undo this abhorrent law. And just as we have done throughout our history, such as the battle we waged against Big Tobacco, we will relentlessly battle the hate spewing from the Governor's office in Indiana or wherever it may exist until our communities are free of hate," AFA International President Sara Nelson (pictured above) said in a statement.
This un-American law sets Indiana and our nation back decades in the struggle for civil rights. It is an embarrassment and cannot be tolerated. As such, AFSCME will move our 2015 Women’s Conference in October from Indianapolis to another state. Additional details about the conference’s new location and any necessary date change will be announced as they become available.
The 1.6 million members of AFSCME cannot in good conscience make such a sizable financial investment in Indiana knowing that women and men in that state are deliberately targeted for discrimination.
LGBT organizations across the United STates are calling for a boycott of Indiana and possible Arkansas.
Today the Arkansas House has approved a religious freedom measure that mirrors the one signed into law last week in Indiana that opponents there say opens the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Monday that he'd sign the measure.
Fourteen other states are considering similar proposals this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy
He now has weighed in, and said all there needs to be said.
In a tweet earlier the king of horror wrote:
In a tweet earlier the king of horror wrote:
“Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration act is gay discrimination, pure and simple. You can frost a dog turd, but it’s still a dog turd.”
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