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<\/a><\/p>\nINDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The controversial new state law that allows Christians to taunt gays, atheists, blacks, browns, Jews, Muslims, the homeless, or anyone with the devil\u2019s flaming red hair does not mean bitch slapping<\/a> is allowed, Indiana Governor Mike Pence said today.<\/p>\n \u201cI am certainly discouraging Hoosiers of faith from hitting heathens,\u201d Pence told CNN and the New York Times this morning.<\/p>\n \u201cLook. You can now refuse service to anyone who is different.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou can yell at them, mock the heck out them, even evict them from your basement rental suite.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut it is still illegal to hit them, trip them, or even just give them a wedgie.\u201d<\/p>\n Immediately following Governor Pence signing the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act<\/a> (RFRA) into law, clashes broke out between a group of \u201ceffeminate men\u201d and an organized parade of Christians marching through the streets of downtown Indianapolis in celebration. Police say 4 men spotted holding hands with other men were arrested for disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t get why those types of people are upset by this law,\u201d said Pence.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Supreme Court says we have to let women marry women and men marry men..and we even have to bake their cake for them. What the heckaroonie?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States is a Christian nation that has begun to wobble away from the Bible and now Indianans are simply saying that\u2019s no longer going to happen in our back yard.\u201d<\/p>\n Reaction to the passing of the RFRA has been swift with a growing number of corporations, celebrities, and sports teams <\/a>calling for travel bans and boycotting Indiana\u2019s corn, hogs, rye whiskey, and any t-shirts or hoodies with the word Hoosier.<\/p>\n The NFL\u2019s Indianapolis Colts, the NBA\u2019s Indiana Pacers, and the NCAA have all expressed concerns that if one or two of their athletes are tightly-closeted gays they might feel uncomfortable in Indiana. Former Star Trek actor and gay rights activist George Takei <\/a>is calling for his nearly 9 million Facebook followers to Unlike the state and Governor Pence.<\/p>\n \u201cListen. We\u2019re not trying to blow off gays,\u201d said Pence.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re just saying we want nothing to do with them\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese people shouldn\u2019t take it personally.\u201d<\/p>\n The hashtag #BoycottIndiana<\/a> bumped #TedCruzIsAPrick from Twitter\u2019s trend list late yesterday.<\/p>\n Via Thelapine.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The controversial new state law that allows Christians to taunt gays, atheists, blacks, browns, Jews, Muslims, the homeless, or anyone with the devil\u2019s flaming red hair does not mean bitch slapping is allowed, Indiana Governor Mike Pence said today. \u201cI am certainly discouraging Hoosiers of faith from hitting heathens,\u201d Pence told CNN and […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[203],"adace-sponsor":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mike-Pence-Sized.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vaticanenquirer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Late-night television host David Letterman, born in Indianapolis, is scheduled to do the Top Ten Reasons Indiana is Afraid of Homos on tonight\u2019s Late Show.<\/p>\n