"Indiana lawmakers engaging (yet again!) in petty anti-gay rights struggle" by Sam Schaffer

Leading officials of the state of Indiana have chosen, yet again, to spend their political capital on the (oh-so-important) struggle to inhibit gay rights in business. In a remarkably predictable turn of events, the conservative members of the Indiana GOP have made the (predictable) decision to devote their time and efforts to a (predictably) petty and insignificant issue that has no place in American democracy- or in a democracy of any kind. The issue, which is of the utmost importance to members of the GOP, further illustrates the Republican trends of fundamentalism, socially regressive policy, and not-so-subtle bigotry; and more significantly, it is symptomatic of the relentless elephantine drive to pursue issues that are completely and utterly insignificant to the national and international stage.