{"id":2441,"date":"2016-03-27T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2016-03-27T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:28:04","slug":"georgia-legislature-passes-religious-freedom-bill-business-community-urges-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2441","title":{"rendered":"Georgia legislature passes religious freedom bill, business community urges veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A large number of high-profile companies have come out against Georgia&#8217;s HB 757.<\/p>\n<p>A large number of film and television companies and workers have come out against the law. Georgia has a growing film industry due to a sweetheart tax deal that makes it incredibly cheap to film in the state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/news-opinion\/2016\/3\/23\/disney-and-marvel-threaten-boycott-georgia-if-anti-lgbt-legislation-passed\">Disney and its subsidiary Marvel Studios<\/a> have both said that they will boycott the state if the law is passed. AMC Studios (which produces?<em>The Walking Dead?<\/em>in Georgia) has said it will take production of that show elsewhere if the law is passed. <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/284140\/disney-marvel-nfl-georgia-boycott-anti-gay-bill\/\">Other media companies<\/a> including Viacom, 21st Century Fox, Starz, Time Warner, Lionsgate, Sony, The Weinstein Company, and Comedy Dynamics have also come out against the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/morning_call\/2016\/03\/nfl-atlanta-s-chance-of-landing-super-bowl-could.html\">NFL has also said<\/a> that signing the law may threaten the state&#8217;s access to?hosting?future Super Bowls. Tech company Salesforce has also said it will move its operations away from Atlanta if the bill passes.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Nathan Deal has until May 3rd to decide to veto the bill. If he does not veto it, it will become law even without his signature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4dLRS-Dl\">ALA and GLBTRT have also issued a statement against the bill. It can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A large number of high-profile companies have come out against Georgia&#8217;s HB 757. A large number of film and television companies and workers have come out against the law. Georgia has a growing film industry due to a sweetheart tax deal that makes it incredibly cheap to film in the state. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[392,370,89,659,673,107],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-georgia","tag-glbt-rights","tag-glbtrt","tag-hb-757","tag-nathan-deal","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}