The reason for this post: My grand-kids, Ariella and Joel Dramin, even though they live in Illinois, are attending the Indiana School for the Deaf HS, because it is a better school. It is only 3.5 hours from home, but are splitting their time between the two states. They reside during the school week in Indiana with their father, but the rest of the time, they rotate to see their mother in Illinois or their mother sees them in Indiana. To make this even more crazy, their mother is an administrator at the Illinois School for the Deaf. We recently saw them in Indianapolis and visited the school, and liked that part of the state.
The Indiana House of Representatives passed a religious "freedom" bill, SB 101, Monday 63-31 that will allow private businesses, individuals and organizations to discriminate anywhere at any time against any person they so choose based on religious grounds. A similar bill already cleared the state Senate. Once the two bills are reconciled, it will head to the desk of Gov. Mike Pence, who indicated he would sign it into law.
Once the governor signs this bill into law, women, racial minorities, religious minorities, people living with HIV and many others will be much more vulnerable to the whims of any individual or business owner who refuses services to particular groups of people based on religious objections to who those people are. This bill could empower police officers to refuse to patrol the areas around synagogues or mosques, allow doctors to withhold medically-necessary information from their patients, or expose the LGBT community to a wave of new forms of discrimination.
CLICK HERE to tell Pence to reject this bill.
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