Lots of businesses and politicians are talking the talk, disgusted with Indiana's new Religious Freedom Protection Act that's been widely slammed as an "anti-gay law" for its failure to protect the LGBT community from discrimination
But who's actually doing something about it?
While Gov. Mike Pence says the whole thing is just a "perception problem," a number of businesses, state and city governments, and organizations have taken concrete steps to push back against the state of Indiana.
Mashable has tracked who's put their pen to the table:
Governments
Who did it? | What's the action? | |
|---|---|---|
Connecticut | Gov. Dannel P. Malloy | Governor Malloy signed an executive order that bans state-funded travel to Indiana. |
Washington | Gov. Jay Inslee | Gov. Inslee issued a ban on travel to Indiana for members of his administration. |
New York | Gov. Andrew Cuomo | "I direct all agencies, departments, boards and commissions to immediately review all requests for state funded or state sponsored travel to the State of Indiana and to bar any such publicly funded travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety." |
Portland | Mayor Charlie Hales | Mayor Hales issued an executive order to temporarily suspend city-funded travel to Indiana. Read more... |
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