Indiana kisses new Amazon HQ goodbye in order to avoid protecting LGBT people from hate
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Bil Browning · Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Despite overwhelming support for a proposed hate crimes law, Indiana Republicans have squashed the idea to appease their religious right supporters. Indiana is one of only five states without a hate crimes law.
While Indianapolis was named one of twenty finalists for Amazons HQ2 offices that would bring thousands of high paying jobs to the area, the Fortune 500 company was crystal clear that it would choose a location that values diversity and equality. Experts had already expressed reservations that Indiana would land the prime development and todays decision only adds another nail to the coffin.
The state is still reeling from former Governor Mike Pences disastrous attempt to legalize discrimination against LGBT people, but now state Republicans have completely surrendered to the demands of a small minority that demands complete obedience. Pence infamously went on national television to defend the law he signed while surrounded by the states most vociferously anti-LGBT activists and refused to say whether he thought LGBT people should be discriminated against.
Republicans reinforced just how out-of-touch they are with the majority of Hoosiers, blocking a policy nearly two-thirds of Hoosiers support and 45 other states have enacted, Indiana Democratic Party Chairman John Zody said in an emailed statement.
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Aristus
(66,530 posts)That makes driving through it as fast as legally permissible, and not spending any money there, very easy.
irisblue
(33,059 posts)Suffer you fools who let the republicans do this.
And I am sympathetic to DUers who live there. I did 84-90. Great state parks.
charliea
(260 posts)I've long since emigrated but I still remember my college anthropology class (go Boilermakers!) discussing the F-scale test. Designed to be an indicator of Fascistic tendencies. It made an impression because the prof explained the test designer's goal was to compare people to Hitler's (and Franco's) high command, via a personality test. The prof said that it had once been given to the members of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, and the members tested more fascist than the German high command.
Don't have a link and don't know if that's actually true, but I grew up there. It's got real truthiness.
Stuff like that (and Dan 'potatoe' Quayle) are why I tell people these days that Indiana is a great place to be from...
Yeah the parks were great when I was a kid. So was Senator Birch Bayh, an actual liberal Democratic Senator, too bad his kid (Evan) devolved in a DINO. Kinda like Mitt Romney devolved from his father's Rockefeller Republican stance to whatever he is now.
#RESIST
Bettie
(16,151 posts)I got a 13%...I'm guessing most modern Republicans would have very high scores indeed.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)IronLionZion
(45,666 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,501 posts)He will feed, clothe and house them, don't ya know?
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NYETNYET
(213 posts)WHERE IS THE MONEY PENCE PROMISED CARRIER TO COVER CLOSING PLANTS GOING TO COME FROM? IT COSTS MONEY TO MOVE TO MEXICO.
LeftInTX
(25,811 posts)Austin and Dallas made the cut.
Texas tried to pass a bathroom bill, but the only reason it failed was because our Speaker of the House would not bring it to a vote. The Speaker of the House is not seeking re-election and has been censured by the Republican Party for not bringing the bathroom bill to a vote.
We also passed SB4, which is an anti-immigration bill.
LonePirate
(13,446 posts)Austin or Dallas would contend only if Bezos fears a sea level rise from climate change would make an east coast city untenable.
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)AND he owns the Washington Post. Does that tell you anything?
He's young enough to run for President in 7 or 8 years. Question is whether there's any country left by then.
trof
(54,256 posts)Not picking on the OP, just the 'journalist'.
This is one of the worst first lines I've ever read.
"Despite overwhelming support for a proposed hate crimes law, Indiana Republicans have squashed the idea to appease their religious right supporters. Indiana is one of only five states without a hate crimes law."
At first it sounds like they squashed (maybe 'quashed'?) the idea to appease their religious right.
And I thought "well, good!"
How about "Despite overwhelming support for a proposed hate crimes law, Indiana Republicans have quashed the idea IN ORDER to appease their religious right supporters."
jeez
safeinOhio
(32,756 posts)the land of the Eight Dollar Job..
Kristofer Bry
(175 posts)Actually, I'm being unfair to the South; the Hoosier State is its own special bubble of darkness!
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)Is that for real?
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)'Nuff said
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)There are blue islands (I live in one), but this place is filled with mouth-breathers.