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As SCOTUS prepares to hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage later this month, the State of Arkansas braces itself for what could be a head-on collision between civil rights and religious freedom. Against this backdrop, on the last day of March, the Arkansas Legislature passed House Bill 1228, an expansive religious freedom law that has been the topic of a heated public debate. With several civil rights organizations, mega-corporations like Walmart and Target, and even his own son's signed petition urging him to veto 1228, Governor Asa Hutchinson sent it back to the Legislature to amend the …