Connecticut has become the first state to officially boycott Indiana over a new “religious freedom” law that could allow discrimination by letting businesses refuse service to LGBT people. Washington state, San Francisco and Seattle have also imposed bans on state or city-funded travel to Indiana. Nine chief executive officers, including the heads of Angie’s List and Eli Lilly, wrote letters asking Indiana state officials to “take immediate action” to ensure the act will not sanction or encourage discrimination. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, the world’s most profitable company, slammed Indiana’s law and others like it, likening it to the Jim Crow laws of the American South. We will have more on the story after headlines.