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Tim Kaine
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See below what Tim Kaine and the 2016 Democratic Party Platform said about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

Democratic Party Kaine on RFRA

  • At a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on August 4, 2016, Kaine said that North Carolina's HB2, a bill that restricts restroom access for transgender people, and Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act negatively impacted the states' economies. Kaine said, "The vice presidential nominee on the Republican side, Mike Pence, did something like the North Carolina bill. Found that immediately, discriminating against LGBT people immediately companies started to pull out. You're seeing those announcements in North Carolina too, whether it's the All-Star game or PayPal. Same thing happened in Indiana and he had to kind of do a U-turn."[1]
  • At the same Greensboro, North Carolina, rally, Kaine said that the country must go "forward, not back" on LGBT rights.[1]
  • Kaine co-sponsored the Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014. The legislation was drafted in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Kaine and the bill's other co-sponsors believed the justices misconstrued the legislative intent of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 when the court held that closely held companies like Hobby Lobby are not required to offer health insurance policies that cover certain types of contraception under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Kaine said that the ACA's contraception exemption was intended for churches and other "religiously-affiliated nonprofit organizations," but not for the companies to which the court applied it in the Hobby Lobby decision.[2]
  • Read what the 2016 presidential candidates and other vice presidential candidates said about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The New Civil Rights Movement, "'That's Just Not Right': Tim Kaine Blasts Mike Pence's Anti-LGBT Record, Links Him to HB2 at NC Rally," August 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Daily Press, "UPDATE: After Hobby Lobby Kaine, Warner back RFRA changes," July 10, 2014
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Democratic Party, "The 2016 Democratic Party Platform," accessed August 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Democratic Party, "The 2016 Democratic Party Platform," accessed August 25, 2016
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