Jim Wright on Facebook:

“Was I expecting this kind of backlash? Heavens no.”

That was a very surprised and hurt Indiana Governor Mike Pence. He wasn’t expecting “this kind of backlash.” This kind.

See, he and his pinch-faced right-wing conservative Evangelical supporters WERE expecting a backlash. Just not THIS kind.

What they were expecting was protests from a few gays and a handful of long haired liberals whining about civil rights and equality - and they just didn’t care. Screw ‘em. Those people don’t matter and can be ignored so far as Mike Pence is concerned. He doesn’t represent them. He doesn’t care about them. He doesn’t respect them. They’re second class citizens and they should be grateful they aren’t being stoned to death in the church parking lot. And in this Pence and his friends are no different than any other nasty small minded religious bigot. For them, their religion isn’t a refuge or a comfort, it’s a spiked club that they use to beat others into submission.

Pence pledged to “fix” Indiana’s utterly unnecessary and completely idiotic Religious Freedom Restoration Law. But, Pence insisted again this morning, the problem isn’t the law itself but how it’s being perceived. He says a “fix” is needed only because “frankly, the smear that’s been leveled against this law.” Republicans are hurt and upset at how unfair it all is. They didn’t give a goddamn about the pushback from gay people or liberals, but when businesses such as Walmart, Saleforce, Apple, and the NCAA threatened to pull out, well, THAT got their attention.

It amuses me that once again, the same people who do nothing but harp endlessly over Ayn Randian free market solutions are upset when that very same free market threatens to take its money elsewhere.

So now Pence is announcing a “fix.”

HOWEVER:

- Pence said he opposes adding sexual orientation to the list of Indiana’s protected categories under the state anti-discrimination law.

- Pence says the “fix” WILL NOT involve statewide anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people.

That’s right, the law de facto gives businesses the right to discriminate against gay people BUT NOT ANYBODY ELSE specifically because EVERYBODY ELSE IS PROTECTED UNDER INDIANA’S ANTI DISCRIMINATION LAW. And Pence says he wants the law fixed, but does not support adding protections for gay people.

Think of it like how black people in 1960’s Alabama had equal rights … so long as they sat in the back of the bus and kept their mouths shut.

A year ago, Pence led Republican efforts in a bitter constitutional fight to ban same-sex marriage in Indiana.

So, forgive my skeptical face when Mike Pence says that he never intended this law to allow discrimination against gay people.

Pence is just the second coming of Bull Connor and George Wallace.

“Was I expecting this kind of backlash? Heavens no.”

Heaven no, Mike Pence didn’t see it coming. The people on the wrong side of history never do.

I wish this guy would run for president.