article_snippet: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Tuesday Indiana Gov. Mike Pence wants new legislation clarifying that a new religious-freedom does not allow discrimination on Indiana Gov. Mike Pence desk by the end of the week.
article_snippet: The White House fired back hours later, calling Gov. Mike Pence a 'previously defiant governor' who has suddenly decided 'to consider a position of changing the law' amid a 'bipartisan and even nonpolitical outcry.'
article_snippet: Gov. Mike Pence told reporters Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has been meeting with lawmakers 'around the clock' to address concerns that the law will allow businesses to deny services to gays and lesbians. '
article_snippet: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence now says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence wants changes to a religious-freedom law
article_snippet: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed just days ago, as criticism mounts from gay rights groups .
article_snippet: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed last week prohibits state laws that 'substantially burden' a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs.
article_snippet: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence says the law has been 'grossly mischaracterized' and has put Indiana under a harsh glare
article_snippet: But, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said, he 'can appreciate that that's become the perception, not just here in Indiana but all across the country.
article_snippet: The Family Research Council, an evangelical group based out of Washington D.C. that lobbies against abortion and same-sex marriage and promotes religious liberty, came to Pence's defense on Tuesday, saying that Indiana has been the target of 'bullying' and 'misinformation.'
article_snippet: : Pence said Tuesday that Pence was not 'the intent of the General Assembly to create a license to discriminate,' , and added that 'it certainly wasn't my intent'
article_snippet: Pence says the backlash has been the result of a willful twisting of Indiana's religious  freedom law's meaning by Indiana's religious  freedom law opponents. '
article_snippet: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence seemed to be sticking to his guns on Monday, writing an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that blamed 'critics and many in the national media' for getting critics and many in the national media facts wrong. '
article_snippet: I abhor discrimination,' Indiana Gov. Mike Pence insisted. '
highlights_snippet: Gov. Mike Pence seemed to blink Tuesday in the face of withering pressure after Gov. Mike Pence signed a 'Religious Feredom Restoration Act' bill into law .
  