I wasn't mad until the part about government agencies' discrimination being codified into law.

Because, like, if people have to 'take their business somewhere else' in the private sector, that's *good* for us all. That runs the bigots into the ground or, better, forces them to reach Zen enlightenment on their own terms. It forces citizens to take an active role in dictating what's okay and what's not -- and I like that. That's freedom and market and all that good shit. And discrimination too, but if you think you can thought-control people into tolerance by passing anti-discrimination laws..... I mean, how's that been working out so far?

But this shit right here.

[quote] the new law permits government employees to deny service to gays in the name of “religious liberty.” [/quote]

is un-fucking-acceptable. To which my first reaction is, 'that can't possibly be what the law says, nobody could've thought that was a good idea.' (part of the reason I react that way is, the article is heavily editorialized). But since I don't have the information I'll just start out pissed off, and set the bar for my research to overcome that. I'll be back when I read up.