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Salesforce Cancels Programs in Indiana in Protest of Anti-Gay Bill

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. Within the framework of its strategy of expansion in France and Europe, Salesforce.com, world leader of CRM, through technologies cloud on mobiles and social networks, as well as the ... Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. Within the framework of its strategy of expansion in France and Europe, Salesforce.com, world leader of CRM, through technologies cloud on mobiles and social networks, as well as the headlights applications for the sales and the management of the customer relation, inaugurated its new head office in Paris in the presence of its CEO, Marc Benioff and of Fleur Pellerin, Secretary of State in charge of the Foreign trade, the promotion of Tourism and the French from abroad, near the Foreign Minister and of International expansion. The week will be rich for Salesforce.com since on June 26th, 2014 will take place its conference users, Salesforce1 World Turn, the first event cloud computing in France, which will be held Hall 5 Porte de Versailles. Paris, FRANCE - 24/06/2014/HARSIN_harsin.27/Credit:ISA HARSIN/SIPA/1406250741 (Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS
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The controversy over Indiana’s new anti-gay law continues to grow. Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, said that his company was canceling all its programs in Indiana in response to Gov. Mike Pence (R) signing a new law that could allow businesses to discriminate against same-sex customers based on religious objections.

Pence signed the legislation on Thursday. A number of businesses warned that there could be blowback to the governor signing the legislation. Gen Con, a major table top gaming convention, threatened to pull its convention out but its contract isn’t up until 2020. Actor/activist George Takei, NBA star Jason Collins, and the Eli Lilly company, one of the state’s largest employers, have all spoken out against the law.

Salesforce is a cloud computing company which has headquarters in San Francisco. It acquired ExactTarget, an Indianapolis-based software company for $2.5 billion last year.

Salesforce Senior Director for Corporate Communications Gina Sheilbley told TPM it had no additional comments beyond what Benioff’s tweets.

This post was updated.

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