Georgia Bureaucrats Listened to a Doctor

Georgia Bureaucrats Listened to a Doctor’s Sermons, and Then Fired Him

National Review

April 20, 2016

On March 28, Georgia governor Nathan Deal capitulated to threats from the social-justice warriors at Apple, Disney, and the NFL and vetoed HB 757, the “Free Exercise Protection Act.” In his self-righteous statement justifying his veto, Deal claimed that Georgia didn’t need new religious-liberty legislation. Rather, he claimed that these laws enable discrimination, and his veto was thus about the “character of our State and the character of its people.”

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