He became a squish after the left went nuts on him. I will never forget his interview on Hannity with him saying how he abhors discrimination. He might as well said I don’t beat my wife...who respects such a wuss!
The whole idea of the Law, of course, was to allow Hoosiers to make business decisions based upon their values, their lights, rather than those of some bureaucrat. That means the right to discriminate--to make one's own choices, based upon one's own lights, not some bureaucrat's agenda.
Yes he caved; but that he was unable to even appear to comprehend the actual dynamics of the anticipated issue, in the obvious function of the original Law, also tends to define his analytic capacity! We have got to find political spokesmen who both stand for what is right, and who know how to defend & define what is right! We cannot preserve our free heritage with those who fail in either regard. The hate driven bullies on the Left will ruthlessly exploit weakness in either regard.