This law is not intended to discriminate against anyone,

the Governor of Indiana says.
And, no, it cannot keep
people from being served
at counters, long past those days

when Woolworth’s served (or didn’t)
at counters:  hash browns and black-
eyed peas for people who weren’t brown or black.
No, this law is not intended to discriminate,

as people can still marry whoever
they want, carry whoever they want
over a threshold once kept from them,
the Supreme Court says,

but they cannot buy a wedding
cake—no matter if the frosting is white
or black—wherever they want because of
who they hold hands with.

No, this law is not intended to discriminate,
as even churches have begun to marry
people of the same sex, changing centuries
old liturgies and minds, but businesses are
behind, for once, money not overcoming

prejudice, so the reception in the fellowship
hall will have one DJ but not another:
Disco or funk or top 40 or whatever you want,
open-mindedness limited to music.

No, this law is not intended to discriminate,
as states can no longer prevent adoptions
by two parents who look alike
in chromosomes, but daycares provide
plastic hammers and screwdrivers for boys,
dolls and Easy-bake ovens for girls.

No, this law is not intended to discriminate
or intimidate or provide condemnation,
but intentions do not matter, whether we
are talking about paving roads
to hell or going to work in a field
in one of Jesus’s parables.