Indiana Companies Press Pence for Ban on Anti-Gay Discrimination

Indiana-based companies including Eli Lilly & Co. and Anthem Inc. pressed state leaders to enact legislation clarifying that the state’s new religious-freedom law can’t be used to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

“All our companies seek to promote fair, diverse and inclusive workplaces,” the companies’ chief executives wrote in a letter Monday to Governor Mike Pence, Senate President Pro Tempore David Long and House Speaker Brian Bosma. “Our employees must not feel unwelcome in the place where they work and live.”