Indiana’s lieutenant governor says LGBT rights aren’t important

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By TOM DAVIES, Associated Press · Tuesday, September 20, 2016

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg derided Republican candidate Eric Holcomb on Monday for being slow to offer plans for what he would do if elected to the state’s top office.

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Holcomb told WXIN-TV of Indianapolis that the LGBT rights question “is not an issue I’m focused on at all. It is 2016 right now. It’s not 2015,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday. “We’ve gotten through that. We’ve moved forward as a state.”

Holcomb said few people bring up the issue when he’s traveling around the state. “In Indiana we’re going to protect religious liberties and freedoms in the state constitution, and municipalities can pass local ordinances (extending LGBT protections),” he told The (Anderson) Herald Bulletin. “That’s how we’ve been operating. It seems to be working.”

Gregg spokesman Jeff Harris said the civil rights issue remains the top worry of Indiana businesses and that the religious objection-law aftermath continues to scare away investment in the state.

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http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/09/indianas-lieutenant-governor-says-lgbt-rights-arent-important/

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