DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday applauded a revision made by a state commission to clarify that religious activities at churches are exempt from sexual orientation and gender identity public accommodation guidelines under Iowa’s civil rights law.Officials with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission made changes on Friday to published advice regarding “gender segregated restrooms” after wording indicating there was no “bona fide religious exemption” to the law’s provisions was challenged in federal court by a Des Moines church and the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom.“I didn’t ask them to change it, but I support the action that they took,” Branstad said during his weekly news conference Monday.

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