Update (4/2/2015 4:36 p.m.): The Associated Press is reporting that the Arkansas legislature passed a revised religious objections bill after Gov. Asa Hutchinson declined to sign the previous version. The new bill “prohibits state and local government from infringing on someone’s religious beliefs without proving a compelling interest. The legislation now heads to Hutchinson, and his office says he plans to sign it into law.”
By Barbara Frankel
Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson didn’t follow Walmart’s urgent request to veto the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but he did ask the legislature to change it to more closely mirror the federal law and avoid the furor over LGBT discrimination Indiana has encountered.
