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Demonstrators gather at Karst Farm Park on March 31, 2015 in Bloomington, Indiana. Responding to widespread criticism nationally over the state's new controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which critics say can be used to discriminate against gays and lesbians, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence today called on the Republican-controlled general assembly to 'fix' the law, making clear that businesses cannont use the law to deny services to same-sex couples, according published reports. (Photo by

Indiana GOP Caves to Gay Rights Lobby-Proposed Group Protections Bill

Despite historic and massive majorities in both houses of the state legislature, Indiana’s GOP leaders appear on the verge of capitulating to the demands of a campaign conducted by the national gay rights lobby to extend special rights and group protections to members of Indiana’s “LGBT” community.

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Arkansas Follows Indiana, Approves Religious Liberty Bill

Despite the criticism surrounding Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s religious liberty law, lawmakers in Arkansas just passed a similar bill. On the other hand, lawmakers in both North Carolina and Georgia are on the defensive about their own pending religious liberty legislation.

The Post reported that a similar measure in North Carolina would “make no sense,” according to Gov. Pat McCrory who made the statement during a radio interview and added he would not sign any such legislation.

President Bill Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act on the White House's South Lawn in 1993 to prevent laws from burdening a person's religious beliefs without a compelling justification.

Flashback: Bill Clinton on Religious Freedom, ‘The Most Precious of All American Liberties’

“The free exercise of religion has been called the first freedom – that which originally sparked the full range of the Bill of Rights,” President Bill Clinton said in 1993, as he signed the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The federal law mirrors Indiana’s controversial religious liberty law that is under fire from Democrats and the mainstream media.

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Indiana Conservatives’ Coalition: ‘School Choice’ With Strings Attached Not ‘Conservative’

At least 40 conservative groups in Indiana have signed onto an agenda for education reform that will be submitted to the state’s lawmakers Tuesday. Among the top planks of the coalition’s platform are cutting regulations for schools that agree to accept school choice vouchers and freedom to reject the state’s rebranded Common Core-aligned standards.