Posted on 02/25/2014 9:44:23 PM PST by lbryce
Arizona has resisted national pressure before to its controversial laws. But this time leaders are urging Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to gay patrons.
TUCSON — When Arizona took controversial stands in the past — refusing to create a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and enacting a tough anti-illegal immigration law — state leaders shrugged off the criticism from out of state as the meddling of outsiders. But now, after the Legislature passed a measure to bolster the rights of business owners to refuse service to gays and others on the basis of religion, Arizona leaders seem to be listening to a national outcry and are urging the governor to veto the bill. So what's different this time? Political insiders and observers say the change can be attributed to a number of forces at work: A growing acceptance of gay rights sweeping the nation, the power of social media and an economic backlash unleashed by the passage of the anti-illegal immigration law that is still fresh in the minds of those in the business community.
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has said she has not made a decision on the bill, SB 1062, which the GOP-dominated Legislature approved last week. But some of her longtime advisors have said they believe she will veto the measure because of the negative reaction to the bill inside and outside the state.
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If Brewer doesn’t sign Im sure gay activists will target Christian owned businesses for legal action.
Those businesses who get targeted won’t have any support from gay loving wealthy Republicans.
What would happen if a large contingent of Christ followers went into a homosexual watering hole, ordered 30 diet cokes, and began a discussion regarding the Bible’s view regarding marriage?
I’d be party to that.
Let’s make tolerance a two way street.
By the way, I disagree that homosexuality is a “civil right”. So do many black citizens.
Sodom and Gomorrah “heeded the cry” too, and history records what happened to them in consequence.
IIRC, Bruce Babbitt used an Executive Order which Ev Mecham rescinded (abuse of power using EO). The State voted for it. Since it was the only State that voted for it, the libs need to shut up.
I wonder how much it would cost the NFL and Apple for the loss of contracts to Ariz companies and cities?
I’d order the drinks before they realized I wasn’t gay. Just a thought about some “activist” putting extra protein in the drinks.
I believe anyone of us has the right to deny service to some fags playing these games.
seems the children of darkness are being smarter than the children of light.When the “already captured liberal establishment and the Press are pressing surrender eleven law professors have already sent Jan Brewer a letter confiming what I Knew to be True— SB1062 in Arizona has been “egregiously misrepresented by its’ critics” —See Breitbart.
The guys getting coverage are those spewing gloom and doom if this is signed into law. The Colorado Boycott promised the same —but in the end I don’t recall much economic impact. Maybe someone else can fact check for me. But the Boycott seemed a bust—more flame and fame than FACT. The real problem is the enemy seized control of our General Assembly and the Governors seat—and turned Colorado into a captive of the Queer Nation.
But it is for the right reason. </sarcasm>
Apple is involved too in the threats as well.
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