nytimes.com - In an interview with The Indianapolis Star on Sunday, Mike Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana, tried to extricate himself from a cage of intolerance and divisiveness into which he had put himself and his state. After coming under ferocious criticism from around the country, he said that he would now support legislation to “clarify” that the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which he signed into law last week, would not discriminate against gays and lesbians.
Supporters of the law, which prevents the state from “substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion,” say it protects the rights of people and business owners from compromising their religious beliefs; opponents say it opens the door to discrimination.
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