Here's one way to show support for Indiana's LGBT community, and anyone else...

[AngryOldDem]

Last edited Sat Mar 28, 2015, 11:48 AM - Edit history (1)

...who the good "Christians" decide to hate:

http://www.openforservice.org/#about

I saw this post from Diabeticman: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026426171 ...

Open For Service is a group of Indianapolis small businesses that are coming together to show support in light of this heinous piece of shit legislation that was signed this week. They are offering stickers that businesses can put on their doors and windows, and they also offer t-shirts, coffee mugs, car magnets and other stuff that show where we all stand on this issue:

We support EVERYONE.

From their website:

Welcome to Open4Service.org, a campaign to celebrate businesses that oppose discrimination of any type.

We are a non-partisan, nonjudgmental group looking to provide a grassroots network for people to support businesses that open their doors for everyone - Black, White, Gay, Straight, Christian, Atheist, Disabled . . . well, you get our drift.

So there you go.


ON EDIT: I wrote this post quickly this morning and forgot to point out that the site will also have a directory where it will list those businesses that are on record as being open to all. I plan to use this a lot going forward, and I think it will be an effective tool as a way to fight this legalized discrimination.

[riversedge]

1. Kick

[antigop]

2. k&r. nt

[tomsaiditagain]

3. I say no to this

Why announce to the world you do not discriminate with signs and such?

Let the uproar continue with unsuspecting merchants getting told to leave a store for not being of a particular gender. Nothing is going to change if 2 factions are created. Let Pence and his right wing Nazi dolts hear about this through those who are denied service on media outlets and from store owners who are losing business because of the law.

The republipigs create to destroy. Let them see how their law will destroy Indiana's future.

[AngryOldDem]

4. Pence, et. al, don't care.

And I'd like to know where people like my son -- and by extension me -- are welcome.

You're right -- in this supposedly enlightened day and age such signs shouldn't be needed, and these business owners have been the first to admit this. But here we are.

Pence practices the politics of spite. He doesn't care.

[SoapBox]

5. I say yes...

Because bullshit like this has to have big consequences...normally the only on anyone understands these days is when it's about $$$$$$.

[niyad]

6. works for me. I insist on knowing where my money is going.

[Luminous Animal]

7. K & R

[99Forever]

8. Awesome.

The pushback has begun.

[marym625]

9. K&R!

[calimary]

10. Seems like a good idea to me. An updated version of "Don't buy books by crooks."

That was the big takeaway from the Watergate era. All those multiple felons from the White House who rightfully and deservedly went to prison. Many of them wrote memoirs and found Jesus and wrote books about that and went on the lecture circuit and made a very nice living when they finally earned their release thankyouverymuch. We citizens were advised to keep our money in our pockets when they set out on these book tours and the publicity machine was all cranked up and they were there on the "Today" show and the early "Good Morning America" and later, after 1980, on CNN and Larry King and MORE. And more and more and more. It's like - "don't feed the animals at the zoo". Don't reward or otherwise reinforce bad behavior! Don't support these businesses that want to jam their particular Christianist cult down YOUR throat. Chances are, they're not following the true message of Jesus - which is to "love thy neighbor and treat thy neighbor as thyself."

The way I learned it in Catholic school, there were TWO basic commandments endorsed by Jesus Christ. Pretty much boiled down from the traditional ten. 1) Love God. And 2) Love thy neighbor as thyself. And Commandment #2 seems to me the Biblical version of the Golden Rule - "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you."

Would THEY - ANY ONE OF THEM - wish to be treated as they profess now to have the right to treat gays? And does it stop there? Or do they thus now have a license to extend that to - mixed-race marriages? Who's next? Blacks? Latinos? Women they consider somehow slutty? Single moms with kids they're raising alone, trying to make it on food stamps? How far does this go - as this approach has now been rewarded by the decree of a governor's signature on a bill making it law - where does it end? Where does it go next? What ELSE will they try to sneak past common decency and non-discrimination and that whole "created equal" thing? Where does it stop? Where is the line that denotes that enough is enough by now?

Let's see now... How does that old poem go?

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps. Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for the quotation:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392