On this episode, host Justin Mitchell sits down with Ann Madden — co-owner of Smith & Lens gallery in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and the leader of a growing protest movement against the state’s “religious freedom law” — to talk about House Bill 1523, the role of small businesses in protecting LGBTQ rights, and loving Mississippi despite its faults.

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