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Published in TZ Latest News 2 April, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Arkansas, Indiana work to mend religion acts seen as targeting gays

Indiana and Arkansas lawmakers on Thursday crafted remedies to religion acts after the measures, which had passed easily in the Republican-controlled statehouses, ran into strong national criticism that they allowed discrimination against gays. In Indiana, lawmakers flanked by gay-rights activists unveiled changes to protect civil liberties under the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which Republican Governor Mike Pence signed into law last week. Indiana was flooded with protests, threats of boycotts and warnings from powerful U.S. firms such as Apple Inc.

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