Whatever you can do to stay out of these States and not use any business based in these States, please do.
I wish it were just Indiana and Arkansas but, unfortunately, it's not. The backlash by the moral morons due marriage equality has hit 28 States with 85 bills in various stages. The fact that any have actually been signed into law is mind boggling.
The HRC and GLSEN are fighting to maintain, restore, and in some cases, give for the first time, equal rights for LGBT people across the country.
The HRC has put out this map to show the States with discriminatory laws
The diversity of the legislation is unprecedented and a record number of bills have been introduced.
Together, these bills undermine, and even cripple, fundamental protections and basic dignity for LGBT Americans and other minority groups.
Even in states with long traditions of support for equality, anti-equality lawmakers are introducing anti-LGBT bills. Massachusetts, for example, is the latest state with a bill that would criminalize transgender people for using appropriate restrooms. Anti-transgender "bathroom surveillance" bills have are now pending in Florida, Texas and a handful of other states.
More at links
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/anti-lgbt-bills-introduced-in-28-states
http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/wave-of-anti-lgbt-bills-in-2015-state-legislative-sessions
These bills can change adoption proceedings and even foster care.
And how sad is this? How sad is it that in this day and age a kid has to worry, at school, about being outed!
HRC is partnering with LGBT groups and other civil and human rights groups across the country to fight the discrimination, in law and practice.
Some companies have come out against these discriminatory laws as well.
Tweet from CEO Tim Cook when Pence signed the bill into law:
Tim Cook ✔ @tim_cook
Around the world, we strive to treat every customer the same — regardless of where they come from, how they worship or who they love.
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Salesforce.com, YELP CEO and C founder of PayPal, Starbucks, NAACP, some athletic associations have come out against, and in some cases already changed conferences, etc, in opposition to the discriminatory laws in Arkansas and Indiana. More are added to that list as the day goes by
GLSEN article
http://glsen.org/article/glsen-statement-indiana-religious-freedom-restoration-act
Please do what you can to fight these awful, outright unconstitutional, laws.