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"Family Values" Hypocrite Gov. Mike Pence Turns Away Syrian Refugee Families

The refugees have spent the last three years being “vetted.”

November 18, 2015
Indiana Gives In Under Enormous Pressure, Adds LGBT Protections to Discrimination Law

After losing millions of dollars and the respect of thinking individuals around the nation, Indiana will finally be adding non-discrimination language to the RFRA.

April 2, 2015
Watch: David Letterman Ridicules Bigot Gov. Mike Pence in Late Show Tirade

In this clip, David Letterman tears into Governor Mike Pence for his defense of Indiana’s recent discrimination law and ridicules him with a list of “Ten Guys Mike Pence Looks Like”. On the “Late Show”, Letterman regretfully wonders what happened to the state he lived in for twenty-seven years. “This isn’t the Indiana I remember…

April 1, 2015
Watch: Indianapolis Mayor Announces Order Protecting Gay Rights, Defying Fellow Indiana Republicans

In this video, the Republican Mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard, announces an executive order protecting the rights of gay Americans in his city and bluntly condemns the discriminatory law passed by his governor, fellow Republican Mike Pence. “For over forty years, Indianapolis has built success by being an open, a welcoming, an inclusive city. We…

March 31, 2015
George Takei Calls for Indiana Boycott: 'Bigotry Cloaked as Religious Protection is Still Bigotry'

George Takei has joined the nationwide boycott of Indiana over its “freedom to discriminate” bill.

March 30, 2015
Watch: CNN Host Calls Out Homophobe for Cherry Picking the Bible to Justify Indiana's Anti-Gay Law

In this video, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo challenges Family Research Council’s Peter Spriggs on the intentions behind Indiana’s controversial discrimination law and leaves him struggling for words behind a relentless verbal assault that invokes Jesus and questions the entire reasoning underlying the issue. “Let me ask you, why do so many Christians these days believe…

March 30, 2015
Watch: FOX News Compares Gays to Nazis to Justify Indiana's Bigoted Law

In this video clip, FOX News contributor Mike Gallagher took the conservative network’s bigotry to a whole new height when he drew an equivalency between gays wanting to be served at restaurants to “Nazis” seeking to have hate-filled “Swastika signs” made for a “skinhead rally”. Alan Colmes couldn’t stop himself rolling his eyes at Gallagher,…

March 29, 2015
Watch New Ad: 'Indiana Is A Great Place To Be A Bigot'

Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence caused a furor when he signed a bigoted bill into law legalizing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Business leaders have denounced the law and are threatening the flee the state as #BoycottIndiana is trending on Twitter. Some of the harshest criticism has come from tech industry moguls.…

March 27, 2015