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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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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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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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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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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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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