The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, one of the session’s most controversial bills, drew hundreds to the Statehouse Monday to rally both for and against the measure.
If the crowds attending rallies about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, seemed familiar, it’s because they’re made up of many of the same people who filled the halls of the Statehouse last year during debates over the same sex marriage ban. Katie Blair, who’s leading the anti-RFRA organization Freedom Indiana, says it’s because Republican lawmakers are up to what she called “their same old shenanigans” that the group remobilized.
“This is about discrimination. This is about dignity. And this is about our lives.”
Two floors down, RFRA proponents gathered to voice their support for the bill, saying it will help defend religious beliefs and practices they say are increasingly under threat.
