used to? and also, where did all these nearly identical discrimination bills come from all over the country, all at once? joining us now is dana liebelson, reporter with mother jones magazine, doing great work covering these so-called religious freedom bills in arizona and georgia and around the country. thanks very much for being here. thanks for having any. you ve been reporting on these bills popping up all across the country. are you able to tell where these are all coming from? or is everybody just having the same idea all at once? you know, it s funny, a lot of the different lawmakers are pointing to other lawmakers saying, hey, i got the idea from ohio, from tennessee. if you dig into this more, i think you find there s a lot of actually national conservative groups who are kind of working, pushing this legislation. in some cases even writing the legislation. and although we haven t found sort of one group that s behind all these bills, i think there s definitely a corre
joining us now is dana liebelson, reporter with mother jones magazine, doing great work covering these so-called religious freedom bills in arizona and georgia and around the country. thanks very much for being here. thanks for having any. you ve been reporting on these bills popping up all across the country. are you able to tell where these are all coming from? or is everybody just having the same idea all at once? you know, it s funny, a lot of the different lawmakers are pointing to other lawmakers saying, hey, i got the idea from ohio, from tennessee. if you dig into this more, i think you find there s a lot of actually national conservative groups who are kind of working, pushing this legislation. in some cases even writing the legislation. and although we haven t found sort of one group that s behind all these bills, i think there s definitely a correlation. it seems just watching this from a national perspective, it seemed to me like kansas was the place that was most