Indiana Grapples With 'Deep Mess' of Religious-Freedom Law
“Fix this now,” the Indianapolis Star editorial board demands.
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There is a simple way to make sure Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act protects religious liberty without making it easier for Hoosiers to discriminate against gay people: Write it into the law, or better yet, pass a new law extending civil rights protections to LGBT people.
That’s what a full-page, front-page editorial in Tuesday’s Indianapolis Star respectfully demands, under the imposing headline “FIX THIS NOW.” Surely, under the intense spotlight that hosting the Final Four has brought to town, that’s where this Hoosier havoc is headed. And if there's a Republican in the land who could ignore the kind of urgent, business-based plea put forward by the Star, I haven't met him or her.