Posted on 02/23/2014 12:54:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Many first became acquainted with George Takei as “Sulu” on the original “Star Trek” TV series, but for a number of years the actor has been an outspoken left-wing, and particularly gay-rights, activist.
On Friday Takei switched his phasers on stun and penned a pointed “Raising Arizona” letter in reaction to the state legislature’s passage of a bill many view as anti-gay.
Calling it the “turn away the gay” bill, Takei promised a ground-shaking degree of trouble, including boycotts, if the measure is signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, The Raw Story noted.
“Your taxi drivers can refuse to carry us. Your hotels can refuse to house us. And your restaurants can refuse to serve us,” stated Takei’s letter, which appears on his blog. “You’re willing to ostracize and marginalize LGBT people to score political points with the extreme right of the Republican Party.”
Proponents of the bill see it as a protection for businesses that don’t want to serve LGBT people on religious grounds, but Takei writes that “no one is fooled. When I was younger, people used ‘God’s Will’ as a reason to keep the races separate, too. Make no mistake, this is the new segregation, yours is a Jim Crow law, and you are about to make yourself ground zero.”
Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed similar legislation in 2013, but The New York Times reported that it’s not clear if she will support the latest bill.
If she does, Takei writes, “make no mistake. We will not come. We will not spend. And we will urge everyone we know–from large corporations to small families on vacation–to boycott. Because you don’t deserve our dollars. Not one red cent.”
Takei noted that after Arizona nixed celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday in 1989, the NFL moved a scheduled Super Bowl from Arizona to Pasedena, costing the state $500 million. Super Bowl XLIX is slated for the University of Phoenix in Glendale in 2015.
You'll first have to get behind Takei, to block his crap.
I’m sure she wasn’t. It was a horrible, dangerous war. Still, I can imagine that if I had been your grandmother, I would probably have felt betrayed. From what I know, my grandparents weren’t subjected to that kind of attention, even though my paternal grandfather was German.
Can’t tell him to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine either.
He was first generation? Germans make up the largest cohort of all ethnic groups in the United States. Look at the names of our WWII leaders: Eisenhower, Nimitz, Spruance, King, Marshall, Halsey, Spaatz, etc...
I think that he was first generation. We never knew much about him. My grandmother was Irish, but from what I recall, was not first generation. My father had an Irish given name and a German surname.
Was she German or Italian?
Deutschen volk.
Sulu talks pretty brave for somebody who hid in the closet for 50 years.
This is what, the 97th boycott of Arizona? Anybody who would participate is already boycotting them over something else.
None of that is gong to happen. As usual, liberals are way off the mark.
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And that was the camel’s nose under the tent. It was the destruction of freedom of association, and now we see what tyranny that has produced.
Private businesses rarely discriminate for good reason. If they do, they lose business. It was government that made Jim Crow laws, not business people.
The next thing will be the government forcing religious groups to accept people who are determined to destroy them.
Taki is an idiot.
Not enough homos to support fag exclusive businesses even though I have seen homo only resorts in Australia.
They don’t have to be exclusive. That is the business owner’s choice.
“Can you imagine homosexuals refusing to do business with people in traditional marriages?”
Let them. Let people have the freedom to do business with whomever they please and refuse whomoever they please. The market works this out beautifully, and businesse who turn away customers pay a certain price for doing so. Government anti-discrmination laws means government controls you and your business.
Sulu was in the closet?
I’m going to be called all sorts of things for this sentiment:
Got rides a bunch of time by Muslim cabbies whilst under the influence. It seems they only pull that nonsense here in the US. Never had a problem with it in the Middle East.
They don't like dogs though, They wont even use them to look for explosives or drugs.
“If you pass a law that says your businesses don’t have to serve us, we will boycott your businesses”.....
That obviously makes no sense. But Takai knows that in fact, the law says no such thing, and he doesn’t mind lying to push a political agenda.
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