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Four kinds of discrimination Indiana governor Mike Pence doesn’t ‘abhor’
“No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe,” says Mike Pence. But his track record on several issues, including LGBT rights, suggests otherwise.
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Indiana governor says he wants changes to ‘grossly mischaracterized’ religious freedom law
Pence said at a news conference Tuesday morning he has been meeting with lawmakers “around the clock” to address concerns that the law will allow businesses to deny services to gays and lesbians.
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Pence fights back: Religious freedom law ‘grossly misconstrued … I abhor discrimination’
In an essay published Monday evening in The Wall Street Journal, Indiana governor Mike Pence said the state’s religious freedom law “is not a ‘license to discriminate’” and simply reflects federal law.
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Lambda Legal fact checks Indiana governor’s statements on ‘This Week’ interview
“Governor Pence continues to deceive the public about this deeply flawed law,” says Lambda Legal, who fact checked his remarks from an interview on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on Sunday.
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Pence refuses to answer ‘yes or no’ on Indiana anti-LGBT discrimination – eight times
The HRC highlights the eight times that Indiana governor Mike Pence ducked, dodged, and declined to answer simple, straightforward questions Sunday about the state’s religious freedom law and whether discrimination against LGBT Hoosiers should be illegal.
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Indiana governor: ‘We’re not going to change the law’
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence defended the new state law that’s garnered widespread criticism over concerns it could foster discrimination and said Sunday it wasn’t a mistake to have enacted it.
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Indiana governor says he didn’t anticipate ‘the hostility that’s been directed at our state’
Three days after signing legislation widely criticized as a “license to discriminate” against LGBT people, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says he didn’t anticipate “the hostility that’s been directed at our state.”
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Indiana officials, businesses scramble to stem ‘religious freedom’ law fallout
The heat over Indiana’s new religious objections law spread Friday across social media and to the White House as many local officials and business groups around the state tried to jump in and stem the fallout.
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NCAA says it will monitor impacts of Indiana religious freedom bill
NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday that the governing body for college sports is concerned about an Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.
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Indiana governor Mike Pence signs anti-LGBT ‘religious freedom’ bill into law
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday signed into law a religious objections bill that some convention organizers and business leaders have opposed amid concern it would allow discrimination against LGBT people.