REPORT: Louisiana plans for freedom to discriminate bill may hurt its movie making industry...

Political theater is outselling show business in Louisiana, where lawmakers are promoting what’s expected to be a box office blowout centering on religious beliefs and marriage with a bill that would allow private businesses to refuse to recognize same-sex couples or service gay weddings. To the state’s nascent motion picture industry, an enterprise that emerged in the early 2000s and has put Louisiana on the map as one of the country’s premier filming destinations, there’s no silver lining to the bill that could alienate out-of-staters in the same way a controversial religious freedom law recently led to a national boycott against Indiana.

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