Anti-LGBT Bills Begin Advancing In Indiana And South Dakota

Despite the fact that Visit Indy reported this week that the backlash against last year’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) cost the city $60 million, Indiana lawmakers proceeded this week with advancing more anti-LGBT legislation. On Wednesday, the Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee voted 7-5 to approve SB 344, which purports to create nondiscrimination protections based on sexual orientation, but which actually creates so many religious exemptions that the protections would be unenforceable. All that the bill offers transgender people is a study committee to consider protecting them in the future...
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/01/28/3743668/indiana-south-dakota-discrimination-bills/