Arkansas Governor Won't Sign Religious Freedom Bill Because It's a Mess
LatestHaving witnessed the debacle currently happening in Indiana, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has declined for now to sign the state’s own recently passed “Religious Freedom Restoration Act.” House Bill 1228 passed on Tuesday, but Hutchinson—while being careful not to anything too supportive of LGBT people—said he won’t sign it into law until he’s sure it doesn’t promote discrimination.
“This is a bill that in ordinary times would not be controversial,” Hutchinson said at a press conference this afternoon. “But these are not ordinary times.” He claimed, too, that the bill “does not pick winners and losers,” but balances “two competing constitutional obligations that our founding fathers gave to us.”