Angie's List rejects 'religious freedom' law fix, calls it 'insufficient'

[Newsjock]

Source: Indianapolis Star

Angie's List calls the fix to the "religious freedom" law "insufficient," becoming the first major local company to reject the deal hammered out by Indiana legislators, the business community and others.

"Our position is that this 'fix' is insufficient," Angie's CEO Bill Oesterle said in a statement Thursday morning. "There was no repeal of RFRA and no end to discrimination of homosexuals in Indiana."

The legislative proposal, announced Thursday morning, would make sexual orientation and gender identity explicitly protected against discrimination in new law. But the proposal otherwise keeps intact the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence.

Oesterle said that, even with the proposed change, "Employers in most of the state of Indiana can fire a person simply for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning. That's just not right and that's the real issue here. Our employees deserve to live, work and travel with open accommodations in any part of the state."

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2015/04/02/angies-list-rejects-religious-freedom-law-fix-calls-insufficient/70824960/

[misterhighwasted]

1. Yes saw that also & am so proud of them for not budging &

..calling Pence out on the sham 'fix'.
Kudos

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I'm liking Angie's List more and more.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Haha. Still on Angie's *hit List, Mike?

Good for them for not settling for anything but the best.

[tishaLA]

4. Surprises the hell out of me

I thought Angie's List, more than the other corporations that opposed the law, would be easy to convince because of the repub CEO, etc., and just wanted a fig leaf to boost its corporate image.

How happy I am to be wrong about them.

[cosmicone]

7. Angie's list does far more business outside Indiana

and the red-states.

They want to use this to ensure their big-ticket business is protected in CA, NY, MA, MD, PA, OR, WA etc.

[still_one]

5. Good for Angie's list

[markmyword]

6. Secession!

Secession is what the Red or Blue states MUST do!

It can be done, because Angie's list and other corporations, sports teams, businesses, conventions, etc are PULLING OUT of Indiana! They're moving their business to other states, BLUE?

We NEED to have two SEPARATE countries. I'm tired of dealing with people whose ideology is crazy and different from mine.

Let the RED states form their own country that will be anti abortion, pro gun, pro charter schools, no health care, no unions, below our minimum wage, anti climate change, anti anyone who doesn't practice THEIR religion, and of course PRO WAR FOREVER!

Let them go and have their own country, the time has come for us to DIVIDE AMERICA into TWO SEPARATE countries !!!!!

[Jester Messiah]

12. You really want that shitpile on our borders?

Better to drag them kicking and screaming into the future. Besides, why condemn their children to such a life? The bigots are dying out, slowly but surely. One day people will look back on this episode in the same way that we look at Bull Connor and his ilk.

[panader0]

14. Mark my words--secession will not happen.

This kind of talk makes me think of Rick Perry. I think you forgot the sarcasm thing....

[libdem4life]

8. "You go, girl." If you don't know about her services, look it up then refer

tradesfolk and customers...it's an awesome service. Funny, that company just got immeasurable publicity...that's Blowback.

[calimary]

9. I'm just floored by this. Angie's List???? ANGIE'S LIST???

This stinks too bad even for ANGIE'S LIST???

DAYUM!!!!

Amazing. I never would have believed it. Their CEO is so damn republi-CON - I NEVER in a million years would have believed it. I would have thought they'd be the last rat off the sinking ship, if indeed they felt like abandoning it. Instead they're up near the head of the line.

[turbinetree]

10. Maybe

with these right wing hypocrites signing pledges to do the work of bigots and oligarchies like the ALEC and other nefarious groups and corporations just maybe they should take a diversity training class before they swear to uphold both the state and federal constitutions and sign that pledge.
I know when I go to work I have to take a diversity training class---and sign it that I have taken the class and if I violate that understanding they can fire me for cause because I am "AT WILL EMPLOYEE" or did they miss that training class.
I think Angie List and any other businesses has that as a requirement for employment purposes and to get contracts as and means of preventing lawsuits for bigotry and discrimination--just a guess---what do you think Pence did you not once have job in the federal government to uphold those laws, or where you out of town with your right wing legislature eating pizza

[Jester Messiah]

11. Angie's List is doing good.

In the grammatically proper sense.

[Dem_Bones]

13. Angie's List is only $10 a month, I think, if that

We've been subscribers for a few years out here in California. We love the service. Great contractors and amazing deals. We use it a lot.

And never knew I'd love their politics, too.

[DonViejo]

15. The Angie's list honcho is no stranger to Pence....

Even the traditionally conservative business community, both local and national, seems to be quickly turning its back on Pence—a fact that has left Pence backpedaling in surprise. On Saturday, Pence called The Indianapolis Star’s Tim Swarens, who reported that Pence was working on a legislative fix. Earlier that day, Pence ally and donor Bill Oesterle, the Republican CEO of Angie’s List and former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ one-time campaign manager, canceled plans to add up to 1,000 jobs and expand its headquarters in Indianapolis, on account of the religious freedom bill. “It passed and (was) signed so quickly by the governor, we suspect the motives behind it,” Oesterle said in a media availability on Saturday. He added: “We believe that the impact of that bill on our ability to hire—continue to build a high-growth technology company—that they are material, and that they are inconsistent with the state’s activity to encourage growth.”

Meanwhile, the CEOs of national brands such as Apple and Nike, alongside nine Indiana-based firms—from Angie’s List to Salesforce Marketing Cloud—said they were dismayed by the religious freedom law. On Twitter, Oesterle suggested to one follower that he had buyer’s remorse for underwriting Pence’s campaign to the tune of $150,000. (It appears that Arkansas’ Hutchinson will face his own backlash—Wal-Mart has urged him to veto the state's religious freedom law, as have the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce and the Little Rock convention authority.)

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/mike-pence-indiana-2016-116569.html#ixzz3WBGhgneT