Post by sherlew99 on Apr 4, 2015 11:28:37 GMT -6
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Indianapolis in crisis mode after tourism hit by religious bill
By Fiona Ortiz
April 2, 2015 7:58 PM
(Reuters) - The rainbow flag, a symbol of gay rights, flies prominently on the Visit Indy website and Indiana's Republican Governor Mike Pence personally phoned the head of a Seattle company that gathers 56,000 gaming nerds in the heartland each year.
These are just some of the signs that Indianapolis, a corn belt city of 850,000 with a $4.4 billion tourism industry, has gone into full-on damage control to make sure its growing convention business is not harmed by a national uproar over a religious bill that Pence signed into law last week.
Indianapolis in crisis mode after tourism hit by religious bill
By Fiona Ortiz
April 2, 2015 7:58 PM
(Reuters) - The rainbow flag, a symbol of gay rights, flies prominently on the Visit Indy website and Indiana's Republican Governor Mike Pence personally phoned the head of a Seattle company that gathers 56,000 gaming nerds in the heartland each year.
These are just some of the signs that Indianapolis, a corn belt city of 850,000 with a $4.4 billion tourism industry, has gone into full-on damage control to make sure its growing convention business is not harmed by a national uproar over a religious bill that Pence signed into law last week.
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Although something needed to be done to keep laws like this one from becoming a slippery slope to legalized discrimination, some people did form a mob mentality and go way overboard in their responses. This could have been handled in a much better way, overall.
