{"id":20241,"date":"2015-04-03T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=20241"},"modified":"2015-04-03T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:29:44","slug":"nevadas-religious-freedom-legislation-declared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/nevadas-religious-freedom-legislation-declared-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada\u2019s \u2018religious freedom\u2019 legislation declared dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nevada-Legislature-building.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-20243 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nevada-Legislature-building.jpg\" alt=\"Nevada Legislature building\" width=\"670\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nevada-Legislature-building.jpg 640w, http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nevada-Legislature-building-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nevada-Legislature-building-110x75.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Wesley Juhl of Las Vegas Review-Journal)<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Nevada legislation criticized as giving businesses and corporations a license to discriminate against gay customers appeared to have fizzled in light of a nationwide outrage over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/trending\/feed\/indiana-businesses-can-legally-refuse-gay-customers-because-religion\" target=\"_blank\">similar \u201creligious freedom\u201d bills in Arkansas and Indiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Silver State officials opposing the bill in Carson City gained a high-profile backer late Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Governor believes that this bill is not necessary because the interests of all Nevadans are protected under current law,\u201d Mari St. Martin, spokeswoman for Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even the bill sponsors are backing away from it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAfter careful reflection and consultation with legislative counsel, I have determined that Nevada\u2019s Constitution already contains adequate safeguards and protections for the civil liberties of Nevada\u2019s citizens, and further legislative emphasis of these rights would be unnecessary,\u201d freshman legislator and Assembly Judiciary Committee Vice Chairman Erven Nelson, R-Las Vegas, said Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the entire article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/life\/religion\/nevada-s-religious-freedom-legislation-declared-dead\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wesley Juhl of Las Vegas Review-Journal) &#8211;\u00a0Nevada legislation criticized as giving businesses and corporations a license to discriminate against gay customers appeared to have fizzled in light of a nationwide outrage over similar \u201creligious freedom\u201d bills in Arkansas and Indiana. Silver State officials opposing the bill in Carson City gained a high-profile backer late Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20245,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions\/20245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}