Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act [RFRA] in late March at a private ceremony featuring a number of conservative religious leaders.
Perceived to be a wolf in sheep's clothing because it protects businesses that object to/won't serve gay patrons, the backlash intensified nationally, and quickly. Politicians, celebrities, businesses, thought leaders ... took to social to express individual outrage about the General Assembly and Pence's actions; call it embarrassment-by-association; in the Hoosier state capital, Indianapolis took umbrage at the verbal slings and arrows being wrongly aimed toward a progressive, inclusive city.
Don't judge all Hoosiers on the misguided actions of one, went the thinking. Blamehim, not us.
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