Article from 6.5 weeks ago, before this thing got finalized:
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/p...18d47936971d2d
Cliffs:
*Legal scholars agreed then with the same thing as the Conkle piece I linked above said, that this isn't the "license to discriminate" that some are charging and is in fact unlikely to negatively affect gay rights in Indiana at all.
*The bulk of the support for the bill probably came from anti-gay types who now have false hope about what just got passed.
*The bulk of the opposition came from people on the other side who were equally clueless about what the proposed law actually said.
*People like me who just believed the headlines and didn't pay attention were making a classic rookie mistake and getting duped.
*Law seems fine, people are up in arms over nothing.
So I guess there's my final answer, master. Caveat is that I assume I'm reading all of this right. I'm glad you brought this up since it caused me to actually study into it further.