New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has banned all “non-essential” travel by state employees to Indiana because of its new RFRA law on religious freedom, which he fears could lead directly to difficulties for gays and lesbians in obtaining wedding cakes, ordering cheeseburgers, and hiring photographers. And, in completely unrelated news, Governor Cuomo will head to gaytopian Cuba on 20 April:
(Have I perhaps messed something up on these photo captions? Something seems vaguely odd.)
And Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, has denounced the new Indiana law, boasting that “Apple is open for everyone.” And it certainly is. For example, here’s a map showing the location of the Apple stores in gay-friendly Tehran, Iran.
And then there’s the case of Jon Stewart’s anointed successor on The Daily Show, Trevor Noah. It was confidently predicted that his takeover of the program would be greeted by hostility and anger on the Right because, well, conservatives are knuckle-dragging bigots who hate and fear People of Colour and, for that matter, anybody else who’s in any way different from them and lives in a cultural world more current than the Eisenhower years and more sophisticated than Mayberry RFD. But Kevin Williamson describes where the protests have actually come from: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416235/mr-noah-and-flood-kevin-d-williamson?target=author&tid=903320.
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