Which Illinois college town was this?  It sounds awful familiar.

It happened outside of Illinois college towns, as well. It permeated the entire Chicagoland area. It still has a small but determined presence, but pathfinder seems to have supplanted it.

Trying to equate legitimate concerns over legally endorsed discrimination with the SJW Outrage Brigade is ridiculous. SJWs are not laughable because of their stated goals, but by their interpretation of innocuous media and tactics they follow allegedly in support of those goals which actually make things worse.

GenCon absolutely should support a policy of nondiscrimination for its customers, not just because its the right thing to do, but because its good for their business to do so and anyone who thinks otherwise should not attend GenCon so I don't need to run into their bigotted, backwater ass when I attend.

Discrimination, of any kind, is bad PR among young educated employees, so coming out against Indiana is meaningful in the competition for talent.

Bingo. Competition for talent is it. I work for one of the largest financial services firms in the world (who, as per our corporate social media policy, I cannot name) and they go out of their way for inclusion. We have a corporate culture which has a huge focus on diversity. We have chapters of PRIDE in every location, for example. We've had transgendered guest speakers come and talk about inclusion. Corporate policy is employees should be allowed to be themselves without fear of harassment or discrimination or feeling they have to hide.

Why does it go to all this trouble? Because it doesn't ultimately care about things like race or sexual orientation or gender, it only cares about talent. But to attract talent from the largest pool it needs to show that it's ok with people who are not the "norm". It's not that the corporation cares so much about gay rights, it's that by supporting gay rights it can get better employees, because if your bottom line is profits, then why would you care who your employees screw? As long as they do a good job. Right?

The company gets involved in charitable activities quite frequently as well, and even will front money for employees to get involved in a charitable event. This is again optics, but this time it's to build a relationship with the communities it serves. It's creating goodwill which means loyal customers. And again, it launches diversity ad campaigns to show it welcomes all people. Why? Because then you have a larger customer base. If you're a business and you only care about profits, then a gay person's money spends just as well as anyone else's, right? Appealing to a wider variety of people is getting more customers which is making more money. It's not hard to understand.

I'd go one further and get rid of the government's involvement altogether.  Marriage is whatever ceremony you and whoever you consensually get to agree to it want it to be; government stops treating married people different from single people.

The ceremony is a wedding, not a marriage. Marriage is a legal status. But I agree marriage should be abolished. Its outdated.

It's almost like it's magical invisible hand of free market at work!

Isn't it though?

Thanks again everyone! I will look at that nWoD blog post soon. You know, for being a bunch of miscreants and haters (according to rpg.net) you guys don't seem so bad J/K

The tone here can often get abrasive. Those with delicate sensibilities find their tender bits grated raw here fairly easily. If you're at all thick skinned, you'll do fine.

Angie's List is currently under a major class-action lawsuit for fraud. They jumped on the "Fuck Indiana!" bandwagon for what appears to be a diversion.

So, yeah, believe what you want, this is just hyped up bullshit.

How about Big Pharma company Elli Lilly? Or any if the other major corporations doing business in the state? Let me guess, that's just a diversion too.

Lots of diversions.

But this has been a good exchange because now I know you're a fundie extremist for your particular -ism and thus there is no having a reasonable discussion with you on this subject.