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NASCAR Disappointed with Indiana’s Religious Liberty Law

NASCAR announced it “will continue to welcome all competitors and fans” at its racing events in Indiana and other states. It’s responding to widespread criticism over the state’s religious liberty law.

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Ben Carson on Iran: ‘We Must Take a Leadership Role’

In a teleforum Tuesday night, Dr. Ben Carson addressed the Obama Administration’s negotiations with Iran. “It is important to know facts, you know we’re looking at Iran, for instance, and apparently negotiations going on with the administration – but I’m not sure it’s taking into account all the things Iran has not been doing.”

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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.

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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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Pence’s Indiana Law Makes Religious Liberty A 2016 Battlefield

Many potential GOP presidential candidates are rushing to defend Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and a recently signed state law defending religious liberty. Key players in early presidential states say this issue is going to be as front and center as other major issues, like immigration, in 2016.

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