Big Businesses Side With LGBT Activists Against Georgia’s Religious Liberty Bill

Big businesses such as Google, Delta Air Lines, AT&T and Coca-Cola have stepped into a religious liberty fight in Georgia.

Leah Jessen, --March 10, 2016

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Major corporations, including Google and Twitter, are coalescing in opposition to legislation in Georgia that would protect the right of individuals and institutions to practice their religion.
Part of the state legislation prevents clergy from being required to perform same-sex marriages if doing so violates their religious beliefs. The state House and Senate last month passed the bill, H.B. 757, and the Senate version is back before the House. “[The bill] would ensure that no state agency discriminates against individuals or institutions for following their convictions about marriage as a man-woman union by revoking, for example, their nonprofit tax-exempt status or denying them government grants, contracts, accreditation, or licenses,” Heritage Foundation scholar Ryan T. Anderson wrote for The Daily Signal. More...

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