Meanwhile in the United States, the land perhaps most associated with freedom, Republicans in Kansas’s lower house passed a bill that would allow Christian business owners or employees the right to deny service to same-sex couples. The bill was thankfully killed in the Senate but Arizona, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Idaho, Ohio, Mississippi and Oklahoma have now introduced bills that, if passed, would grant religious zealots the right to segregate their businesses against LGBT Americans. In a nutshell: businesses will be able to refuse to serve gay people if it goes against the owners' religious beliefs.