The issue focused on the federal court ruling that struck down an anti-discrimination law that Florida lawmakers passed in 2013 after facing widespread backlash over its impact on the gay community. As we all know by now, the 2015 law made it illegal to use public accommodations for sexual orientation and gender identity but not gender identity or expression. The last time the courts struck down such a law was in 2013. But just a year after the law was passed, in 2015, a federal court ruled that Florida must recognize same-sex marriages