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IBM cancels ribbon-cutting because of Bobby Jindal’s anti-gay executive order
IBM has cancelled Monday’s ribbon-cutting for its new National Service Center in Baton Rouge because of Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s executive order protecting those who object to same-sex marriage.
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Analysis: Anti-gay bill rejection gives Jindal a campaign opportunity
By voting down a proposal to give special protections to people who oppose same-sex marriage, lawmakers thought they had put the divisive issue to bed and ended one of the major controversies of the legislative session.
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New Orleans mayor blasts Jindal with counter executive order protecting LGBT individuals
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu responded to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s controversial religious objections executive order by issuing an order of his own.
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Critics bash Jindal over ‘religious freedom’ executive order
“Arrogant” and “cynical” — that’s what Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called President Barack Obama last fall after the president issued an executive order addressing the hot-button social issue of illegal immigration.
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Defiant Jindal issues executive order after Louisiana House panel kills anti-gay bill
Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday shelved a divisive religious objections bill pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, but the governor fought back, issuing an executive order aimed at doing the same thing.
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Louisiana House committee kills anti-LGBT ‘religious freedom’ bill
Our legislators decided that Louisiana would not be the next Indiana and voted to return HB 707 to the calendar, effectively killing the bill, reports Equality Louisiana.
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GOP 2016 hopefuls emphasize staunch opposition to same-sex marriage in Iowa stump
Republican presidential hopefuls emphasized their staunch opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion rights Saturday before a crowd of social conservatives who hold significant sway in the state’s leadoff presidential caucuses.
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Bobby Jindal blasts companies opposed to Louisiana religious freedom bill
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday that businesses opposed to religious objections laws are entering an “unholy alliance” with the same liberal elites who support more taxes, regulation and “demonize” profit-making.
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Navigating same-sex marriage debate a difficult issue for GOP White House hopefuls
For Democratic politicians, same-sex marriage has become an easy issue: They’re for it. Many Republican VIPs – notably the presidential hopefuls – face a far more complicated landscape.
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Jindal defends religious objections bill that would allow anti-LGBT discrimination
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has given a full-throated defense of a divisive religious liberty bill that is a key piece of his legislative agenda.