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What Americans think about gay rights and religious liberty
Most Americans support allowing businesses to refuse wedding-related services to same-sex couples on religious grounds, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll conducted earlier this year.
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Indiana lawmakers suggest deal close on clarifying religious freedom law
Indiana’s Republican legislative leaders moved toward a possible agreement Wednesday on how to clarify the state’s new religious-objections law in hopes of quashing concerns that it could allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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Chris Christie defends Indiana governor on religious freedom law
Christie, in his first remarks on the subject in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, focused on defending Pence: “I know Mike Pence, and he’s got nothing but love in his heart for people.”
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GOP’s Ted Cruz calls religious liberty a defining issue
The Republican presidential candidate told an audience in Sioux City, Iowa, on Wednesday that a new Indiana law is awakening like-minded voters of various political stripes.
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Why businesses are speaking out against ‘religious freedom’ laws
A bevy of big-name businesses including Apple, Walmart, Gap and Levi Strauss are publicly speaking out against religious-objections legislation in states such as Indiana and Arkansas. But why?
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Arkansas governor’s son thrust into national spotlight over religious freedom bill
Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson opening opening a new conference by saying the issue has become so divisive that his own son, Seth, was among those who signed a petition asking him to veto the bill.
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Indiana family wants you to know their Christian pizzeria won’t cater a same-sex wedding
An Indiana woman whose family owns a small-town pizzeria says the state’s new “religious freedom” law supports the restaurant’s right to deny service to any same-sex couples who might ask them to cater their wedding.
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Transgender birth certificate change gets initial approval in Colorado House
A bill to allow transgender people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates without undergoing sex reassignment surgery has won initial approval in the Colorado House.
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Backlash intensifies as businesses, performers, states boycott Indiana over religious freedom law
Businesses and organizations continued their boycotts by canceling events and barring travel to Indiana over a religious objections law that critics say would allow discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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Arkansas governor wants religious freedom bill recalled, won’t sign in present form
Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson announced Wednesday he will not sign a controversial religious freedom bill in its present form, and has asked the legislature to recall and revise the bill.
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Texas GOP budget proposal cuts $3 million in HIV funds, boosts abstinence education
Texas would cut $3 million from programs to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and spend that money instead on abstinence education under a contentious GOP-sponsored measure tucked into the state budget.
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Ohio leaders aim to capitalize on criticism of Indiana religious freedom law
Officials in Ohio are aiming to capitalize on backlash against a religious-objections law in neighboring Indiana that critics say could permit discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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Indiana religious freedom debate exposes Republican divisions
The backlash over a religious freedom law in Indiana has the GOP’s leading White House contenders in a messy clash that highlights the party’s opposition to same-sex marriage and threatens to inject social issues into the early stages of the 2016 presidential primary season.
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There was a time when religious freedom laws weren’t designed to defend anti-gay discrimination
Religious freedom laws have rarely been used to defend discrimination against gays, but history may not be prologue in these cases, since gays have only recently won widespread legalization of same-sex marriage.
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Walmart urges Arkansas governor to veto anti-gay religious freedom bill
Retail giant Walmart says Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson should veto a religious-objection bill that critics say would open the door to widespread discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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Vermont governor bans state funded travel to Indiana
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is banning all non-essential state-funded trips to Indiana because of that state’s new religious-freedom law that critics say opens the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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DOJ asks Texas judge to reconsider ruling blocking FMLA benefits for same-sex couples
The U.S. Justice Department is appealing a federal judge in Texas’ temporarily blocking federal rules that would have expanded medical leave benefits to married, same-sex couples.
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Arkansas House approves anti‑LGBT religious freedom bill, governor says he’ll sign it
The Arkansas state House has approved a religious freedom bill nearly identical to one in Indiana that critics say is a “license to discriminate” against LGBT individuals.
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USC Athletic director, ‘proud father of a gay son,’ skips Indiana playoff meeting
Southern California athletic director Pat Haden will not attend the College Football Playoff selection committee meeting in Indianapolis this week because of a new Indiana religious-freedom law
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N.Y. governor Andrew Cuomo bans all non-essential, state‑funded travel to Indiana
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has banned all non-essential, state-funded travel to Indiana after that state adopted a religious freedom law that critics say opens the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians.