Hoosier State Hate

By Miss Kubelik

The firestorm over Indiana's "religious freedom" law continues, which makes us cats very glad. They deserve all the grief they can get, because the law is not only based in hate, it's ridiculous. After all, if folks aren't buying wedding cakes, hiring photographers and renting formal wear, how can right-wing religious business owners be sure that their potential customers are gay? How can this law possibly work in the all-American world of retail and commerce?

In fact, we've even thought up some examples of the downright havoc that it could wreak. Send in more if you've got 'em!

• A front-counter drugstore clerk could refuse to serve a customer whom he saw buying birth control at the pharmacy.
• A toy store owner could turn away a woman holding a baby because she's not wearing a wedding ring.
• A Mormon could refuse to sell anybody a cup of coffee or a Coke.
• A Muslim taxi driver could deny rides to airline passengers carrying duty-free liquor.

And finally, we suppose that, under the law, the so-called Christians in Indiana's business community could discriminate against anybody they thought wasn't going to heaven. That would include Jews, wouldn't it? We cats HISS and dump our dirty litter boxes over Mike Pence's head.