So, wow, Terri Schiavo was finally allowed to die 10 years ago today. And we cats were totally planning to post about that — and talk about how the teabags and the Freepers hate Jeb! Bush for not sending the FDLE in to kidnap Terri and force her to live.
But it's been another day of Hoosier State Hate news, and we simply must opine on that again. Mainly because we can't believe how stupid Mike Pence and his Republicans are, to have let this get so out of hand.
But this is not just a case of a right-wing Republican Governor and his similarly right-wing legislature jumping off an ideological cliff. Plenty of GOP-run states have done that very thing, usually about abortion, and nobody's batted an eye about it (except maybe for Rachel Maddow). But this time, it's different. This time, the voices of American capitalism have risen to speak. And goodness gracious, isn't it amazing.
It's not just lefty-type businesses like Apple, whose CEO is openly gay. It's Angie's List, for heaven's sake. And Subaru, and Eli Lilly, and Dow Agro Sciences. Marriott's CEO, Arne Sorenson, said Pence's bill was "madness" and "idiocy." Marriott! The folks who place a Book of Mormon in every hotel room's nightstand drawer. We cats love, love, love this.
Some sort of important watershed moment has been reached. The disgust and outrage that's been expressed against Indiana's so-called "religious freedom" bill is not far from the revulsion the nation felt after seeing the attacks on the Selma marchers in 1965. America has realized what Indiana has done, and has thrown up all over it. And it's just about the worst possible timing for any right winger hoping that the Supreme Court will take us all back to the 1950s come June.
And you know what? We can draw a line from Mike Pence's gay loathing to Jeb! Bush's interference in the Schiavos' private medical decisions. Because both Jeb! and Pence are Republican Governors who have tried to impose their personal values (or lack thereof) on their states' economies and their citizens' lives. We cats HISS at them for that, but PURR at the body politic, who have expressed themselves in no uncertain terms. There's hope yet. Yes, we can.
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