NY lawmakers want to enact non-essential travel ban to Louisiana following Gov. Bobby Jindal’s E. O.

Two New York lawmakers want to ban all non-essential, state-funded to travel to Louisiana in the wake of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s executive “Marriage and Conscience Order.”

New York Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell and State Senate Deputy Minority Leader Mike Gianaris have urged New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to enact the travel ban, which is similar to what New York enacted on Indiana after it passed its religious freedom law.

After Indiana revised its law, New York and two other states lifted formal travel bans to that state.

Meanwhile, following Jindal’s executive order, O’Donnell drafted correspondence to Cuomo prompting the governor to “move our business to places that treat their citizens equally and fairly.”

Read more: http://theadvocate.com/news/12429864-123/new-york-lawmakers-want-non-essential (Baton Rouge Advocate)

Cross-posted in the Louisiana Group.