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June 2014 – The Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed by the state legislature and signed into law in April by Gov. Phil Bryant. The law will protect the religious freedom of corporations, individual Christians and churches.

A storm of protest hit the state as the bill neared passage – similar to the outcry that torpedoed similar bills in Kansas and Arizona.

AFA urged its Mississippi supporters to contact their legislators in Jackson and ask that the measure be passed. AFA encouraged legislators not to be misled by what it described as “fabricated fear tactics” being employed by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest homosexual pressure group.

“In the world of HRC, homosexuals are always victims, and Christians are always the oppressors,” said AFA president Tim Wildmon after the bill was signed into law. “I think many people are starting to see that the opposite is true.”

Wildmon pointed to instances in other states in which Christian business owners are sued or otherwise charged under law for refusing to take part in same sex marriages, even though the Christian faith regards only man-woman unions as legitimate.