Damn.

because they have minions on radio and TV lying to them and supporting their myopic, medieval ideas. And it appears that hundreds of politicians are on the highway to hell with them.

And they will legislate the American citizens who disbelieve.
We need this 2016 Presidency more than ever.
Fuck this!

Hate radio 24/7 and dominion theology every Sunday from their heretic preacher at the local mega church.

Propaganda, fear and tribalism work, racial hate works, fear of..gasp...gay people works, spending millions buying up politicians and supreme court justices work, and they work well unfortunately.

They stay wrapped it their hate cocoons and think the whole world agrees with them!

It did back in the middle ages where the koch bros are trying like hell to force this world back to.

When you are trained to ignore evidence and interpret the world through an outcome-based perspective, it becomes easy to ignore inconvenient facts. In today's media environment, you never have to be exposed to views that disagree from your own, if you don't wish to.

He got a big clue when Arizona tried this and the push back that even Jan Brewer vetoed and she was not running again and still got enough pushback to not take the bad law. Pence had full warning not to do this and did it anyway. Arkansas is even worse because they saw it played out in real time and still passed it. No ignorance or fingers crossed for these Governors.

Rove to Romney, they really thought they were going to win.

What we are seeing are many of hate filled themes of the late thirties thru the fifties. These themes were as a rule spouted by the Fire and Brimstone tent revivalists. Seems no one has learned from the past.

Fire & brimstone tent revivals.
Scary trip backwards with them in power.

And the hold of fundamentalists over the flyover states will probably only intensify as time goes on as the young and educated leave in search of better career prospects.

Like they always do.

that they can suppress and rig the voting process in 2016 to win with their base only.

In their own bubble with their own "unskewed" polls, absolutely sure that they're winning.

They went too far again and the backlash against them will be extreme. Ultimately, they will have to settle for the societal opposite of what they tried to shove down our throats. They actually cause the very thing they are the most scared of.

These religious fanatic dominunists are the same as ISIS, al quida and the Taliban.

They just haven't got to the killing of those who disagree with them part...yet.

diabetes. That lets people live longer. The GOP was against that...and their holy rollers were right with them. So too were they with the casino banksters who crashed the economy...which causes suicide to go up. Guns too. GOP lies, folks die.

Yet alone the century we live in, to say nothing about the Millenium. The GOP is hostile to anything more modern than a Millenium ago.

but I fear it won't be. Come election time republicans will denounce this bill, even though they will secretly endorse it, and their voters will either be smart enough to know better and not care, or will be gullible and accept them at their word.

Think about it. A seemingly dumb Republican does something seemingly stupid, but in the background we have the constant pressure from Republicans in the US House and Senate snip, snip, snipping money away from programs that help Americans, while at the same time increasing the domestic spying budget as well as the already obscenely bloated war budget. And, of course, they are also trying to cut away policies that protect the environment, and they continue to spew about how America has the highest corporate tax rate in the world while at the same time leaving loopholes in the law that have allowed multinational companies to 'hide' over $3 trillion of untaxed profit offshore.

So, yeah we definitely have to fight against egregious fundamentalist incursions into our most basic rights, but we CAN'T forget the big picture, because if we can get a majority and focus on policies that promote economic, social and environmental justice, most of the religious right idiocy will crawl back under the rocks where it lived in more sane times.

Those lies did not work

I think that he honestly thought that this would either go unnoticed (hard to imagine given that opposition picked up pretty heavily as it passed out of the Legislature) or people would just shrug their shoulders and move on. After all, Democrats have been neutered and Republicans have such a commanding majority that Democrats could show up or stay home and it wouldn't change anything that happens in the Legislature. Plus, I bet that he thought that this would be a quick and easy ticket to woo Republican primary voters (he has been rumored to have Presidential ambitions). I'm pleasantly surprised at how swift and strong the backlash has been against this law, however, it won't mean much in the long term unless Democrats and progressives capitalize on this backfire next year when Pence and all House members in the Legislature are up for re-election. Pence barely won in 2012. Hopefully, this will help improve our chances of making him a one-term Governor.

Outside your state that might care what you do and even be in a position to influence it.

But it's not a good trait in someone who ever aspires to nation wide office. America is actually pretty diverse.

Excellent point.. mahalo apple!

and it's still working for them.
When the rubes finally figure out that they've been had the result will not be pretty.

Thanks for sharing

have it go to Court to determine "what a religion" (primarily just Christian) is. By doing that they will be hoping to garnish and solidify people and guilt them into supporting them and their buds. I can hear the Constitution rip as I type this.
The argument is obtuse. It is insane. It is based upon one person's manufacturing of what they think. NOT necessarily what their "Religion" actually practices. Not even really what the Bible may say.
The attempt to make these Laws are based upon hate, guilt, manipulation and total takeover.
I mean under this argument a person can say anything.

choice. And when the reporters go after them on that...they obfuscate. They want this point made into law. And it is bullshit. It reminds me of a psychopath trying to argue in a non logical way because the debate must serve the psychopath and his ends, not logic or truth. I think religion is about serving god, not yourself.