In an email obtained by Breitbart News, president and publisher of the Indianapolis Star (IndyStar), Karen Ferguson Fuson, sent an invitation to an undisclosed list of business and media elites to join the Indystar in a secret campaign to promote LGBT agenda.
She unabashedly asked “community leaders” to help plan and coordinate an aggressive, highly orchestrated campaign to “persuade” the Indiana state legislature to “expand” protections for Indiana’s LBGT community and do away with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act “controversy” in Indiana.
Dear Friends:
The IndyStar is preparing this fall to launch an ambitious and aggressive Editorial Board campaign designed to persuade the governor and state lawmakers to expand Indiana’s civil rights law to include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.
We would like to privately brief you on our plans for the campaign, to explain ways in which you and your organization can partner with us, to answer your questions, and to hear your thoughts and possible concerns. Please join us for a meeting with community leaders on September 22, from 8:00 – 9:30 am at our offices, 130 S. Meridian St.
We believe that it is critical for all of us to work together to drive this important change and to further the recovery from damage done to our state by the RFRA controversy.
Please join us as we prepare to continue this vital conversation about the future of Indiana. To RSVP, email [redacted]
Karen Ferguson Fuson
Group President, Gannett Domestic Publishing
President & Publisher, IndyStar
The whole purpose of RFRA is to protect business owners from being preyed upon like florist Barronelle Stutzman was in her home state of Washington.
While speaking on "The Kelly File," Kristen Wagg of the Alliance Defending Freedom said Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson “relentlessly pursued” Stutzman and used “the full power of his office to personally and professionally destroy her.” Ferguson sent a "clear, unmistakable message," stated Wagg. "If you dare to decline their agenda, the government will bring about your personal and professional ruin." Stutzman's case goes back to 2013 and she is still fighting against a state-backed gay couple who are determined to take everything she has, solely because of her beliefs and her willingness to act on them.