Oops. Somebody Didn't See That Coming - By Josh Marshall

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14. It ends when there is a "compelling state interest" that trumps the religious objection

Those exist in the law to protect citizens against racial discrimination, sex discrimination... but in Indiana, not discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Republicans rebuffed efforts to include language in this law guaranteeing such protection, and even today Pence told the nation doing so is not on the agenda.

In Illinois there's a similar law, but they also have a law that will bite you if you decide you won't serve gays. Indiana not only has no such protection, the people who rammed this through refused to consider it, and back before people started noticing this explicitly trumpeted the ability under this law to engage in discrimination as a great virtue. They can walk this back only by repealing the law or recognizing the rights of gays with a new law. Everything else is bullshit, no matter how many times they say 20 or 30 other states have such laws or invoke the names Clinton and Obama.