Technology company Salesforce. Proponents of the law claim that it protects free exercise of religion and freedom of conscience. Thousands protested against the policy, [12] [13] in part because of Indiana's reputation for " Hoosier hospitality". An additional bill acting as an amendment intended to protect LGBT people was signed into law on April 2, Indiana's Attorney General Greg Zoeller has written amicus briefs supporting same-sex marriage bans in Hollingsworth v.
Perry and United States v. Windsor and appealed the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage in Indiana. Indiana, unlike neighboring Illinois, does not have a state-wide anti-discrimination ordinance, and the majority of the state does not have local ordinances against discrimination against LGBT people. When a reporter asked Speaker of the House Brian Bosma whether it would be against the law for a business to put up a "no gays allowed" sign, he stated that "it would depend" on whether the business was in "a community that had a human rights ordinance.
In , Pence stated "Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual's [ sic ] [28] as a 'discreet [ sic ] and insular minority' entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.
Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. In , the U. Supreme Court in City of Boerne v. Flores held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act only applies to the federal government, but not states and other local municipalities within them. As a result, 21 states passed state RFRAs before Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Nineteen members of Congress who signed the original RFRA stated in a submission to the Supreme Court that they "could not have anticipated, and did not intend, such a broad and unprecedented expansion of RFRA".
