At the March board meeting of the Metro Atlanta Chamber, 2014 Chairman Richard Anderson issued a call to action.

“We are going to have to step up as a business community and take a much more active role in stopping this social legislation that doesn’t help us in the global marketplace,” Anderson, the CEO of Delta Air Lines Inc., told the top- tier group of business leaders meeting behind closed doors.

Specifically, Anderson was addressing attempts by the Georgia General Assembly to pass “religious freedom” bills that could have allowed business owners to refuse service to gay customers if owners claimed that doing so would violate their religious beliefs.

The Metro Atlanta Chamber board was meeting on March 20, the last day of the 2014 session, and even then, some executives were concerned a religious bill could resurface at the 11th hour.

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