Guys, I just love it when the 'right' finds its but in the wringer. ABC's George S. caught Gov. Pence with his britches down. He never got a straight answer from the Governor as to whether it was ok to discriminate against gays and lesbians. This man equivocates.
The Right continues with the inane slippery slope argument that if they could not discriminate in as far as who they do business with as a public accomodation, the next step would be their places of worship.
To me there are three areas of concern, association, religious institutions and businesses. Everyone is of course free to associate with or not associate with whomever they want for whatever reason in their private lives or on their private property. Churches are not a public accommodations, no one has suggested that individuals have to compromise their relgious values in their places of worship.
But business is different, you are a public accomodation, and no you just can"t do anything you like! You have to pay taxes, there is the infrastructure that support your business that I as a tax payer contribute to. Your tax breaks as small or large businesses are taken at my expense. I have to pay for the health inspectors that make sure that your 'greasy spoons' are not making the general public sick.
Yes, you are a public accomodation and you will serve all equally or you will get out of business. I have been around long enough to recall the preposterous premise used to support racial discrimination in public accomodation before the law was changed. I will smash the conservative flat before I will even consider a turn of the clock backwards. Anachronistas all!
Indiana is taking a lot of heat on this now as it deserves to, let us see how the Right is going to calm this storm? The pressure on Indiana may well be an example to other states to either avoid the issue or look carefully at the provisions they currently have on their books.
Your thoughts?
The dinosaurs are dying, and they're kicking and screaming on their way out. Too bad for them, their histrionics are only hastening their death.
Good for the rest of us, though.
Hello, Pretty Panther, I would say rather than dinosaur, more like a wooly mammoth, the extinct distant relative of their current mascot, the pachyderm! Nice to see you around, return soon, we need you.
by Claire Evans 10 years ago
Ashers Baking Company in Ireland was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to make a cake for a local gay activist. It was to mark the election of the first openly gay mayor in Northern Ireland, Andrew Muir. They explained it was in conflict with their religious beliefs. I...
by Reality Bytes 13 years ago
TIME has recently provided different cover stories for the American market. The international form has very gripping and interesting cover stories. The American version has cover stories that IMO are nothing but fluff.Is it a case that Americans will not read the articles that will...
by Jack Lee 7 years ago
It seems to me, the ACLU is missing in action...They claim to be the defender of freedom and individual rights and work against abuses of power by our government...sounds good until you examine just what they do.They target religious institutions and defend criminals...
by promisem 9 years ago
The Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act protects religious people from legal repercussions if they verbally condemn the lifestyle or actions of LGBT persons. Additionally, the bill expands the definition of an individual to include businesses, and so if a business owner thinks their...
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |