After just a few short days, Arkansas lawmakers have tweaked their "religious freedom" law to more closely mirror the federal version, and today Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed the legislation into law.
In the wake of intense backlash against a similar law in Indiana, first-term Republican governor had rejected the first version Arkansas lawmakers had sent to his desk, instead asking for two tweaks so there would be no daylight between his state's law and the one President Bill Clinton signed in 1993.
"I think it's sending the right signal, the way this has been resolved, to the world and the country that Arkansas understands the diversity of our culture and workforce but also the importance of balancing that with our sincerely held religious convictions," Hutchinson said Thursday afternoon.
Hutchinson has also announced he is considering issuing an executive order that would ban discrimination against state employees.
We shall see.
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