(April 3, 2015 at 2:41 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Well considering they have already revised the law, it probably wasn't going to play out very well in court. The revised law explicitly bars a business from denying services to someone on the basis of categories that include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Noo, it does not. This is the reason for which I made my other thread. The revision to the law does NOT prevent discrimination in service towards people based on sexuality.
The RFRA law in Indiana did not give businesses the ability to discriminate against homosexuals because state law allowed them to deny service to homosexuals before this bill was ever even drafted. And businesses are still allowed to do so, as sexuality is not a protected class in the state anti-discrimination law, and is therefore grounds for a refusal of service without legal rammifications. The only thing this clarification says is that businesses can't use this bill in specific as a defense in court, but the state law is still on their side. Many areas in Indiana have local ordinances that do classify sexuality as a protected class, but many other areas do not.
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