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Louisiana Governor Jindal: Firms Won’t Deter “Religious Freedom” Bill

HeadlineApr 23, 2015

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has vowed to fight for the passage of a law that critics say would allow discrimination against LGBT people by preventing the state from punishing companies based on their religious views of marriage. In an op-ed in The New York Times, Governor Jindal, who is expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination, condemned Indiana and Arkansas for caving to protests from businesses and softening their own so-called religious freedom measures. IBM has already opposed Louisiana’s “Marriage and Conscience Act.” Jindal wrote companies are “free to voice their opinions, but they will not deter me.”

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