Georgia's governor, Nathan Deal, is currently weighing a similar bill and the Nebraska Senate just shut down a bill that would have provided LGBT protections.

LGBTQ Americans are now the clear target of a nationwide campaign being prosecuted by religious zealots to systematically solidify discrimination in every state that hasn't already enacted nondiscrimination protections (i.e. red states). We already knew this, but what we're seeing now is that it's actually becoming a reality much like the 2004/2006 anti-gay marriage amendments that swept the country.

Stay tuned ... I'll have more thoughts in my column this weekend. If you want to ready my reflections on how non-existent LGBTQ issues have been on the 2016 campaign trail, last week’s column is here.

Also, I'm going to start adding a bit of shameless promotion at the end of my #LGBTQ rights posts for my book Don't Tell Me to Wait because it is a reminder of this fact: When we fight, we win. It is also a playbook for how to wage that war. The grassroots has to keep fighting and do more of it because our national groups aren't getting the job done. And they won't figure it out until we push them to do so.