Posted on 03/27/2015 2:00:50 PM PDT by drewh
A number of Hollywood celebrities have taken aim at Indiana Gov. Mike Pence after the governor signed a religious objections bill into state law on Thursday.
Miley Cyrus, Ashton Kutcher, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, and Broadway star Audra McDonald were among those who took to social media Thursday to decry Gov. Pence’s signing of Senate Bill 101, which forbids both the state and federal government from limiting a persons’ ability to exercise their religion. Critics say the law will allow Indiana businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
“You’re an a**hole @govpenceIN,” Miley Cyrus wrote on Instagram Thursday. “The only place that has more idiots that [sic] Instagram is in politics.”
“Indiana are you also going to allow Christian establishments to ban Jews from coming in?” tweeted Ashton Kutcher. “Or vice versa? Religious freedom??? #OUTRAGE.”
Legendary Star Trek actor George Takei had promised to boycott Indiana if the law passed, and urged his online followers to avoid attending video game convention GenCon, the largest annual convention in the state.
“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,” Takei wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “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.”
The convention is reportedly under contract to remain in Indiana until 2020, and GenCon spokeswoman told the Indianapolis Star that it will honor its contract. However, she said the law’s passage will “factor into future decisions.”
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As I said earlier, this law destroys my plan to visit a Halal restaurant, order a Ham and Bacon sandwich, and then get filthy stinkin’ rich by suing them.
Maybe I should visit Indiana.
I’m sure all of those people were planning gay weddings in Indiana in the near future.
So much for “stay out of my bedroom”.
I believe Utah signed a similar bill. (The boycott only shows these people’s hatred of religion.)
These people are so ignorant. Unless they walk into an establishment carrying a sign that screams “I’m Gay!” how could that establishment possibly discriminate? Why would they?
It’s only an issue if they make demands based solely on their gayness. Or gaiety. Or whatever the prevailing lingo is.
Now they can refuse and not be sued by the gaystapo.
There’s some irony to be savored in a boycott for tolerance.
Roger that. I think most people are passive in their opposition to God. These people are militant in their opposition to God.
Wow no gamers. That’s going to hurt the junk food industry there.
“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” - Alfred Hitchcock
I'm thinking the same thing.
The irony is that the idiots only care because its getting some attention. We passed a similar law in Michigan a couple months ago.
The signing took place in a closed door meeting.
Otherwise, faggies would have stormed the place. Hope the dam breaks & lots more states pass a similar law.
These people think they own us.
You’d only be successful in other states if the target of your scheme were a Christian entity.
They’d find some way to say it was OK for anyone else to discriminate on religious grounds.
Question for the homos - if you AREN’T targeting Christians for persecution by the State, then why didn’t you look for someone else to make your cake?
Uhmmm.. No, that would be Hollywood.
And Miley's skull...
Just think of the domino affect now that a megastar the likes of George Takei is boycotting Indiana. Who next? Jim Nabors?/s
We’ve had basically the same exact law in Illinois, liberal Illinois mind you, since 1998, 17 years, and the much feared tidal wave of religious bigots using it to harm gays has never materialized. All it does is make sure everybody’s most basic rights, including religious freedom, are carefully considered. Strict scrutiny standard of review. Mostly boring case law. Protecting churches from overzealous zoning boards, etc. Good things, but no drama.
The celebs are hypocrites if they don’t boycott Illinois too, and ever other state with the same law. But rational consistency has never been a strong suit with that bunch.
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