article_snippet: Pence said in a statement Thursday that the new law, patterned after a federal law signed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, ensures 'religious liberty is fully protected.' '
article_snippet: The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion, but today, many people of faith feel many people of faith religious liberty is under attack by government action,' the new law, patterned after a federal law signed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, ensures 'religious liberty is fully protected said.
article_snippet: A window sign on a downtown Indianapolis florist shows A window sign on a downtown Indianapolis florist owner's objection to the new law, patterned after a federal law signed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, ensures 'religious liberty is fully protected .
article_snippet: For more than 20 years, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act has never undermined our nation's anti-discrimination laws, and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act will not in Indiana.'
article_snippet: Today I signed the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, because I support the freedom of religion for every Hoosier of every faith. '
article_snippet: The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both the United States the Indiana Constitution provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion but today, many people of faith feel many people of faith religious liberty is under attack by government action. '
article_snippet: Fortunately, in the 1990s Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act—limiting government action that would infringe upon religion to only those that did not substantially burden free exercise of religion absent a compelling state interest and in the least restrictive means. '
article_snippet: Last year The U.S. Supreme Court of the United States upheld religious liberty in the Hobby Lobby case based on the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not apply to individual states or local government action.
article_snippet: At present, nineteen states—including our neighbors in Illinois and Kentucky—have adopted Religious Freedom Restoration statutes.
article_snippet: In order to ensure that religious liberty is fully protected under Indiana law, this year our General Assembly joined those 30 states and the federal government to enshrine these principles in Indiana law, and I fully support government action. '
article_snippet: For more than twenty years, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act has never undermined our nation's anti-discrimination laws, and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act will not in Indiana. '
article_snippet: Faith and religion are important values to millions of Hoosiers and with the passage of the legislation, we ensure that Indiana will continue to be a place where we respect freedom of religion and make certain that government action will always be subject to the highest level of scrutiny that respects the religious beliefs of every Hoosier of every faith.'