(04-03-2015 10:10 AM)RocketElvis Wrote:  The University of New York at Buffalo can not travel to Ball St because the New York govenor has banned any of the state's funds from being spent on travel to Indiana for non essential trips. It was not the university's decision and they must adhere to Gov Cuomo's mandate.

They have a pretty powerful governor in NY.

This again, sounds extremely stupid to me, leading only to economic wars and divisiveness. I don't discount or dismiss economic pressure but it's much too early. They should give time to the people of Indiana to work out their moral compass honestly without the economic threats.

It's subtle territory what they are doing. At this time, it is debatable as to whether NY has only exercised their right to refuse to be a customer or is in fact exercising the same right of business they are protesting, right to refuse a customer based upon moral belief. By refusing to participate in agreed upon contracts it does seems as if NY is refusing to provide an agreed upon service based upon moral grounds. And it's not even clear that is what Indiana is doing.

It is still being debated and fine tuned as to whether Indiana wants their business owners to be able to exercise a right to refuse a customer for moral reasons, any reasons or are only looking for the right for non-essential businesses to choose what business they are in and what business they are not in.