CNN's Lemon: Religious Liberty is 'Code For Discrimination'

Matthew Balan | April 1, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

CNN's Don Lemon acted more like a socially-left activist than a journalist on the 1 April 2016 edition of New Day, as he moderated a panel discussion on a proposed religious liberty law in Mississippi. Lemon twice misrepresented what the law actually says, and asked a LGBT activist, "Religious liberty — is that just a code for discrimination — I don't want to provide services to certain people? Isn't that just a code?" He was more explicit later in the segment: "People in certain professions...wouldn't have to serve certain people — which, at its base, is discrimination."

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