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And indiana doesn t have a law on the books that prohibits sexual orientation or gender identity. they tried to put that into the bill. what did that do? they did not provide gender identity. what it did is said that in municipalities, so in indianapolis there is say local sit ordinance that protects against certain kinds of discrimination that will be honored. religious objections will not be allowed to trump that ordinance but in most of the state of indiana there is no civil rights protections for gay people or trans people and that remains even after the fix. and the lawmakers working on the fix said they could do that and i think their legislative session is close to wrapping up and they are hope to fix that before the end of the session. ....
Definition, not to discriminate against a group of people, that, i mean why do you think that would be problematic? with regard to rifra itself? yeah. if they include that why do you think it would continue to be problematic? because it doesn t cover a lot of the areas that we re talking about. there is no comprehensive protection against discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation in indiana. and the only time we re seeing an effort towards this is when we see this tremendous backlash indiana is experiencing. and arkansas is looking at it as well. there is no civil rights protection for lgbt people in indiana, and limiting to it as a subset of a rifra is not comprehensive enough it doesn t go far enough. matt breen, thanks for being with me pshgs appreciate it. you bet. live to arkansas next hour where governor hutchinson is calling on his legislature to make changes before he signs ....
if indiana doesn t change this law and makes sure this law doesn t discriminate against gays and lesbians should the nba thinking about moving out of city snp? yes. the nfl should move out, the rookie combine and the colts and the ncaa should move out. what this law does is it brings back essentially segregation. it s saying that if you are a member of this group, it is okay for these other people to treat you poorly. we ve had that fight before. we know how that fight ends. we want equality as a nation. we want diversity as a nation. that s why you re seeing people get so upset. unlike all the other rfras out there, indiana s bill makes it legal for private citizens to discriminate against each other. it s not protections against the government. it s protections against other citizens that you can use to discriminate against them. ....
This was being pushed forward on the floor, law makers voted not to have amendments that would have made it very clear that this law was not meant to discriminate. they intentionally didn t put those safeguards in that many of the other laws have. and since indiana doesn t have anti-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation, this law is certainly right to give license to discrimination on sexual orientation, and it s very different from the federal law and quite frankly the other states that have similar laws. very quickly, under this law, does it cut both ways? for example a gay florist in indianapolis wouldn t want to provide flowers for a christian e evan jell kl one it not only gives individuals rights it also ....
The books in other states. whether it should apply and the compromise i need to push ahead for one second. the compromise pence is proposing would effectively probably take off the table the claim that a business owner could make, it wouldn t protect a gay or lesbian couple from discrimination more generally in parts of indiana that don t have human rights ordinances because indiana doesn t have a law statewide against discrimination against gays and lesbians. discrimination against them was legal in indiana before the law was passed. there s a lot of support changing that. gloria, i want to get your thought on this. the state senator said, let s start compromising. but a lot of politics are going on right now. you heard one admission in the governor s lengthy press conference where he said, i could have handled this all better this weekend. ....