article_snippet: Critics of the law contend the law could be used by individuals and businesses to discriminate -- particularly against the LGBT community of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals -- on the basis of religion.
article_snippet: the law states that the government can't "substantially burden a person's exercise of religion" and that individuals who feel like individuals who feel religious beliefs have been or could be "substantially burdened" can lean on the law to fend off lawsuits.
article_snippet: Civil liberties and gay rights groups hold to Civil liberties and gay rights groups stance that the law could be used by businesses to deny service to people based on Civil liberties and gay rights groups sexual orientation and justify that discrimination based on Civil liberties and gay rights groups religious belief.
article_snippet: I think that Indiana needs to be told that Indiana must respect all persons regardless of sex, age, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation," Sean Burke of Madison, Wisconsin, says in A petition posted on change.org.  
article_snippet: The 'Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act' feels like thinly disguised legal discrimination to us," Wilco says.  
article_snippet: Indiana's top two state lawmakers pledged Monday to amend the Hoosier State's controversial "religious freedom" law to clarify that the state's controversial "religious freedom" law cannot be used to discriminate against gay people.
article_snippet: the state's controversial "religious freedom" law does not discriminate, and the state's controversial "religious freedom" law will not be allowed to do so," David Long, the Indiana Senate president pro tem, said during a news conference with state House Speaker Brian Bosma.
article_snippet: Indiana is the 20th state to adopt a "religious freedom restoration" law, most of which are modeled after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1993.
article_snippet: But law passed with the backing of a broad-based coalition and wasn't set against the backdrop of gay rights or the wave of marriage equality laws that have swept the country in recent years.
article_snippet: Despite the controversy, the state's governor for approval says concerns that the state's governor for approval state's new "religious freedom" law will allow businesses to turn away LGBT customers is the result of a "tremendous amount of misinformation and misunderstanding.
highlights_snippet: Indiana is under fire for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act .
  
highlights_snippet: Critics say Indiana discriminates against the LGBT community .