AFSCME announced Monday it was canceling a planned women's conference in Indianapolis this year because of the law. The band Wilco said it was canceling a May performance.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued a letter to Indiana corporations saying Virginia is a business-friendly state that does "not discriminate against our friends and neighbors," while Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel sent letters to more than a dozen Indiana businesses, urging them to relocate to a "welcoming place to people of all races, faiths and countries of origin."

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee said he was imposing an administration-wide ban on state-funded travel to Indiana.

As a similar bill advances in Arkansas, Warbelow said lawmakers need to take notice.

"We hope that the state legislature is paying attention ... and taking seriously that the wholethere are similarities in the arguments used by some of the activists. In Ucraine, both the opposition to Yanukovitch and the opposition to the new revolutionary rulers use nationalist arguments like the "right to decide our own future" through a mixture of referenda and "democratic radicalism." Ukraine split from Russia through a referendum in 1991. The chronicles report that the country is divided between a pro-European west and a pro-Russian east, but I am sure than many people would like to live together and do not see these identities as incompatible (Russian and Ukranian are possibly as close as Catalan and Spanish). I am also sure that these peaceful people (the federalists?) are today silenced and ridiculed by radical groups who become more "central," although perhaps the peaceful