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$\"Berhrendt$ <\/p>\n

Larry Behrendt wrote the above words in a comment here on this blog<\/a>, and I asked for permission to share them with a wider audience. His own blog post \u201cMadness in Indiana\u201d<\/a> is also important, offering a careful reading of the law that many are discussing, but often in abstraction from the details of what the law actually says.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"