http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clay-naff/indiana-gop-while-banning_b_4501419.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Indiana already has a law banning gay marriage, complete with criminal penalties for pastors who perform same-sex rites, but that's not good enough for state Republicans. Prodded by right-wing religious groups such as the good Christian folks at the Indiana Family Institute, GOP legislators voted overwhelmingly in 2011 for an anti-gay constitutional amendment and are now mulling a second and decisive vote.
It's a mighty special amendment. Not content merely to limit the legal benefits of marriage to hetero couples, it comes with extra added venom to outlaw any "legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals." Together with criminal penalties already in the law, this would make Indiana the state most like Russia when it comes to gay oppression.
Like Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, Gov. Mike Pence and his religious right allies are betting the populace will back them. "The future of marriage belongs in the hands of voters," says Micah Clark, executive director of American Family Association of Indiana. But why just marriage?
The proud social conservatives of Indiana might as well git r done all in one vote. For starters, they can add official recognition of the state's Ku Klux Klan heritage, now moldering in a Historical Society bin. They can restore Bible-based anti-miscegenation laws, which outlawed interracial marriage. (Indiana distinguished itself as the only Northern state to keep such a law on its books well into the 1960s.) Turning to the present, they can also rehabilitate White History Month, which the (lately defunct)Indiana University White Student Union attempted to establish earlier this year.
But why not go the whole hog, Hoosiers? Just add White Supremacy to the anti-gay amendment. Since multiple studies link right-wing social conservatism with old-fashioned racism, it's bound to be a crowd-pleaser.
the light is on and the haters are in full view, but with ideals of this kind do they have the right to call themselves Christian in that same vein do the, right-wing social conservatism with old-fashioned racism, still have that right they seem to be one in the same, guess they were never gone just more embolden since their greatest nightmare happened Barrack Hussein Obama occupies the WH.
we have seen the relentless racism and bigotry demonstrated by these self declared Christians for 5 years bold and racist as we have ever seen since jim crow, IMO they did this to see how far they could push him before he morphed into their idea of an angry Black Man, to stupid to realize that an angry Black Man is a Progressive voter one that stands in line for hours in spite of their obstruction and votes against the angry White man now angrier because they failed twice.
