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15 ‘Tolerant’ Celebrity Responses to Indiana Religious Freedom Law

Celebrities have flocked to Twitter to make their displeasure about Indiana’s new religious freedom law known. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed Senate Bill 101 into law last week, a law which prohibits state and federal government from limiting a person’s ability to exercise their religion. Critics on the left have argued that the bill is anti-gay.

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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Jeb: Indiana RFRA ‘The Right Thing’

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush expressed his support for Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Jeb stated, “I think if you — if they [the law’s critics] actually got briefed on the law that they