Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma joined msnbc Tuesday to respond to the controversy surrounding his state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act after celebrities and business leaders across the country have spoken out against the legislation.
“We got to bring this bill to a close in a positive way, reassuring everyone that Indiana doesn’t discriminate, Indianapolis doesn’t discriminate. [It] never has, and it won’t,” Bosma told José Díaz-Balart on The Rundown.
Bosma added that the bill has been mischaracterized since it was signed into law, and the bill doesn’t allow discrimination. Nonetheless, Indiana lawmakers planned to “clarify” the legislation in order to put an end to any controversy.
Bosma said he expects a fix to the law within days. “It’s time to quit defending it,” he said. “Let’s fix it and move on.”
Watch the full conversation with Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma in the video player above.
Nicole Acevedo
I am a bilingual national reporter specializing in issues affecting Latino communities in the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. Experience I have produced hundreds of stories across digital, radio and broadcast platforms throughout my career — reporting on everything from elections, natural disasters and immigration to pop culture trends, social justice issues and breaking news. I'm best known for my coverage of the crises affecting Puerto Rico, including its reconstruction process after Hurricane Maria, the island’s financial crisis and more. After graduating from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in broadcast and digital journalism in 2016, I joined the inaugural cohort of students who helped launch the Spanish-language bilingual journalism master’s program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Awards I was a 2024 finalist for the NAHJ/University of Florida award in investigative journalism for my reporting uncovering the challenges Puerto Rican families face in caring for their elders, given that the island’s population is aging faster than most places on Earth and fragmented by migration. I served as the lead reporter and writer of NBC News' 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month project “Who’s Latino? Amid growing numbers the definition is expanding,” which was awarded an NAHJ Ñ Award for best Latino issues story for print/digital.