I remember how Arizona stood proudly alone nationwide against the celebration of Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday when first enacted in 1986 signed into law by Ronald Reagan.
Arizona fought tooth and nail against the holiday.
Years of political fighting over the holiday had created an image of Arizona nationally as a state locked in a racial battle. Several big-name musicians and national conventions had canceled their Arizona events.
But the cancellation that really panicked Phoenix-area business interests came from the National Football League.
The NFL had already cautioned that if a holiday was not approved, it would consider relocating the 1993 Super Bowl planned for Sun Devil Stadium. The league wanted to avoid the racial controversy. After the ballot measures failed, the league followed through, moving the game to Pasadena, Calif.
Arizona voters approved a state King holiday in November 1992, making Arizona the only state that put it to a vote of the people and saw it pass.
We need an exemplary divorce lawyer to aid us through this split. Who gets what? Will some states join Canada or Mexico? Where will the borders be? How do we split the military & nuclear weapons?
Boy, did Jesus know what he was talking about when he said we would either worship him or money.
And I think that AZ is slated to host the next Super Bowl in 2015, or maybe 2016.
Recently the NFL has positioned itself as a politically correct organization, eager to embrace all things ‘progressive’ so I would expect the pressure to be on this time as well.
There’s no way she signs this bill.
Don’t trample on my religious rights-this is a warning Left Wing!
(Not aimed at you), but a STRONG Warning to them...
No, it may heed the pressure of big sports and the thugs at Apple. Pathetic governor, pathetic members of the legislature. These commies passed this bill for her to veto in order to close down the legitimate effort in other states. It’s a shameful spectacle where a red state is actually undermining the other red states.
And what exactly is this "national outcry" mentioned in the article? Is the media possibly trying to give the impression that gay supporters are a larger group of people than they may actually be?
Note that the states have never amended the Constitution to protected so-called gay rights. So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against such "rights," as long as such laws don't also unreasonably discriminate against constitutionally enumerated protections.
Also, speaking of discrimination against gays, I found it interesting the the US Mail Service used to refuse to handle homosexual-related material.
Comstock laws
This one article proves that the threats by the NFL to move the Super Bowl and the threats Apple to cancel a plant in Arizona are more important than the voters.
Divorce attorneys have stopped salivating over this and are now power-drooling.
Such an enormous increase in potential profit for the legal sector might seem to indicate that there may be some sort of gigantic lobbying campaign going on.
Thanks goodness state, local and national politicians aren’t predominantly lawyers!
Oh ... Wait.
It is a “national outcry” only in that LGBT and its leftist politicians are spread around the country. It is surely not an “outcry” by any substantial number of real people. It is actually an MSM/LGBT outcry, but I guess these are the official Elite of the country.
Principles or money? Such a choice! I think I read something about this in the Bible.../sarc
I suspect a gross misrepresentation of the bill, though I don’t know what it’s supposed to say. Probably a defense of non-collaboration with a known sin situation, and it’s being read as ah, now “Christians may refuse service to ‘gays’” which wouldn’t be applicable in the vast majority of cases.
I am not a lawyer, but that seem like extortion to influence legislation, maybe Joe should make some arrests.
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 believe anyone of us has the right to deny service to some fags playing these games.