Passion and opinions continue to spark around Georgia’s proposed “religious liberty” bill being considered in the General Assembly. Senate Bill 129 passed that chamber last week. Today, pop superstar and philanthropist Elton John, a part-time Atlantan for decades now, voices his concerns with a bill critics call a license to discriminate. On the opposing side, an Atlanta attorney says a state version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act is needed because the latter does not apply to state or local laws, and most religious liberty disputes arise over these.

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Rebecca Ramage-Tuttle, assistant director of the Statewide Independent Living Council of Georgia, says the the DOE rule change is “a slippery slope” for civil rights. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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