Ohio Gov. John Kasich said during a recent presidential primary interview he wouldn’t have signed off on a bill akin to the one in North Carolina restricting transgenders to using the bathroom facilities that correspond to their genders of birth, not choice.

When asked directly by CBS “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson if he would have signed such a bill had it been brought before him in Ohio, Kasich said, “probably not,” the Washington Blade reported. Later in the interview he doubled down on that claim, saying he definitely wouldn’t have signed it.

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“We are not having this issue in our state about this whole religious liberty,” Kasich said. “I believe that religious institutions have to be protected and be able to be in a position of where they can live out their deeply held religious purposes, but when you get beyond that, it gets to be a tricky issue. And tricky is not the right word, but it can become a contentious issue. But in our state, we’re not facing this.”

Kasich also said “everybody needs to take a deep breath” and respect others.

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