Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Arizona has indeed resisted national pressure before to its controversial laws BUT in the end has mostly capitulated not for lack of principle but for the huge financial penalties suffered as a result economic boycotts that that were threatened against Arizona. eventually took its toll.

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.

1 posted on 02/25/2014 9:44:23 PM PST by lbryce
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: lbryce

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?


2 posted on 02/25/2014 9:47:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

Boy, did Jesus know what he was talking about when he said we would either worship him or money.


3 posted on 02/25/2014 9:48:37 PM PST by bramps (Go West America!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


5 posted on 02/25/2014 9:56:25 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

There’s no way she signs this bill.


6 posted on 02/25/2014 9:58:35 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

Don’t trample on my religious rights-this is a warning Left Wing!

(Not aimed at you), but a STRONG Warning to them...


8 posted on 02/25/2014 10:16:21 PM PST by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


9 posted on 02/25/2014 10:28:14 PM PST by Viennacon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce; All
The photo of Gov. Brewer in the article is a bit demonizing imo.

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

10 posted on 02/25/2014 10:29:30 PM PST by Amendment10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


11 posted on 02/25/2014 10:41:47 PM PST by Oliviaforever
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


12 posted on 02/25/2014 11:06:47 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


14 posted on 02/25/2014 11:18:27 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

Principles or money? Such a choice! I think I read something about this in the Bible.../sarc


15 posted on 02/25/2014 11:21:45 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


16 posted on 02/25/2014 11:27:01 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce
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.

I am not a lawyer, but that seem like extortion to influence legislation, maybe Joe should make some arrests.

17 posted on 02/25/2014 11:29:08 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for RINOs is the same as voting for any other Tyrant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


21 posted on 02/26/2014 12:25:02 AM PST by RginTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


22 posted on 02/26/2014 1:25:15 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

By the way, I disagree that homosexuality is a “civil right”. So do many black citizens.


23 posted on 02/26/2014 1:26:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

Sodom and Gomorrah “heeded the cry” too, and history records what happened to them in consequence.


24 posted on 02/26/2014 1:32:21 AM PST by Jack Hammer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce

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.


25 posted on 02/26/2014 2:44:25 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lbryce
There should be no need for the law...period.

I believe anyone of us has the right to deny service to some fags playing these games.

29 posted on 02/26/2014 3:46:13 AM PST by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson