article_snippet: It simply 'mirrors' federal law, he stated.
article_snippet: But the Human Rights Campaign and other Democrat-aligned groups say it's disingenuous to compare the two laws.
article_snippet: HRC's legal director, Sarah Warbelow, said the new law was designed to ensure religious minorities were protected from laws passed by the federal government that might not have been intended to discriminate but had that effect.
article_snippet: the new law, HRC's legal director, Sarah Warbelow said, allows individuals to invoke government action even when the government is not a party to a lawsuit.
article_snippet: Warbelow said one of the best ways to fix the new law would be to add language that explicitly says the new law cannot be used to undermine already existing civil rights protections.
article_snippet: As a similar bill advances in Arkansas, Warbelow Warbelow said lawmakers need to take notice. '
article_snippet: Warbelow hope that the state legislature is paying attention ... and taking seriously that the whole world is looking at lawmakers,'
highlights_snippet: New measure simply 'mirrors' federal law