Posted on 02/28/2014 8:13:35 AM PST by C19fan
As Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer prepared to make a career-defining decision — whether to veto a bill that would free business owners to discriminate on the basis of their religious preferences — a letter arrived at her office early this week with a stern warning from some of the biggest names in the local business community. Signed by the heads of four Arizona business consortiums, with board members including officers of Bank of America, Intel and the Arizona Cardinals football franchise, the letter urged Brewer to strike down the measure known as S.B. 1062. The letter raised the prospect that the legislation could stain Arizona’s national reputation and touch off a wave of unpredictable litigation thanks to the bill’s broad, vague wording.
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Told you all
No one cares about homos
EVERYONE cares about money
I guess what I don’t understand is that if those businesses want to cater to homosexuals they still could. What does it matter to them if another business doesn’t want to? If it is such a great idea to do so, wouldn’t they make more money? If nothing else, what’s it to them what other businesses do?
What needs to happen is a change must be made in the boardrooms of these companies. Christ followers need to start LIVING their faith.
Additionally, education needs to be focusing on REAL freedom and tolerance, not the perversion being touted today.
Warning to C of C Members:
When the Tea Party comes to power (and sooner or later, we will) it won’t be nearly as “business friendly” as it would have been four or five years ago.
A lawyer friend of mine pointed out that the REAL problem is how to force homos to self-identify. Force them to wear pink triangles? That’s been tried.
Since demanding someone’s papers in Arizona has already been struck down by the courts, this opens up the state—and the active business—for expensive discrimination lawsuits.
Not to mention the loss of tourist dollars.
I don’t know that the law would have “allowed” business owners to discriminate. So far as I know, there is no general non-discrimination law covering other than defined protected categories, and sexual orientation isn’t one of those.
Free to be a homosexual but not a conservative....
In modern times, the Republican Party has been composed of a fusion of social conservatives, businessmen, and defense hawks. Social conservatives are the useful idiots in this troika.
The problem is the large number of businesses threatening to pull out of the state or at least drastically reduce their presence. When you put up a big “don’t do business in AZ” flag a lot of money stops coming in.
No wonder the economy is in the toilet when it’s being run by these clowns.
The lavender mafia strikes again. Thanks for the list of companies that I will refuse to do business with in the future, along with any business residing in Arizona. The governor you elected caved to intimidation tactics, and the voters there now get to pay the price. Maybe the 2% of the population who are gay will pick up the slack, but I highly doubt it. Trading your constitutional right in for profits and acceptance by hostile groups will only lead you to ruin.
Pretty arrogant, considering that it's the represenatives of the state of Arizona who created and passed the legislation.
It is EASY to spot a fag: Mention Fox News. They will instinctively turn up their nose.
"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
They chose the Sodomites.:(
The truth about homosexual behavior.
Warning: very graphic-
“Male Homosexual Behavior”
http://factsaboutyouth.com/posts/male-homosexual-behavior/
1 Timothy 6:10
“Fag” is so crass.
I prefer “Buttbuddy.”
A more sophisticated ring.
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