Remember that Indiana is the state that in 1924 elected Edward L. Jackson, a Republican who was a KKK leader, as governor. If today people want to legally discriminate against gays, tomorrow the “No Jews or Dogs” signs will be back and the next day co-op boards will declare themselves religiously opposed to having Jews live in the building. You don’t have to like homosexuality but if we don’t fight this now, we will be the target of Christian bigotry.
(In fact, we may already be. A recent poll found that 57% of Republican primary voters want to establish Christianity as the official religion of the United States, overturning the very First Amendment that they claim to be defending here and turning Jews into second class citizens. The only good news is that Big Business calls the shots in the Republican Party and Big Business knows that gay bashing is bad for business. Already Republican leaders like Jeb Bush and Asa Hutchinson are starting to distance themselves from this nutty law that gives for profit corporations religious rights.)