MORE HERE:
John McCain, Other Republicans, Break With Party Over Controversial Religious Freedom Bill Slammed as Discriminatory Against Gays
And more here:
Mitt Romney Surprisingly Urges Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to Veto Controversial Religious Freedom Bill; Republicans Think She Will
Any word from Cruz?
(I’m serious)
I saw Paul Ryan this morning, he would not comment one way or the other.
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Civilization 0
Good. Horrible bill for Christians. Just horrible.
Muslim Doctor refuses to give emergency treatment to Christian. Do I really need to go on and on and on with a list. Constitutional rights are NOT absolute. This is like giving people a First Amendment right to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. It’s like giving Second amendment rights permitting someone to walk into my home with a gun.
Hey GOP. Ya know it’s actually OK to give us some people that are, I dunno ... smart.
Conservatives need to ID the nitwits that came up with this idiocy and Primary them. (if they have Primaries in State elections there)
Our nation is falling ever faster - we will not make it to the 2016 elections - God has given us plenty of time (and reason) to turn back to Him - we have chosen our path, and it is the way of death.
It has nothing to do with “gays””.” Or homosexuals either for that matter. Has anyone actually read it?
True. And world-famous gay guy George Takai is threatening to destroy the State of Arizona with his awesome economic power. Knowing Brewer, none of that is necessary because she planned on vetoing it the instant she heard that "Freedom" was in the title.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
There is something i really don’t like about this bill.
We really don’t need to pass laws which re-affirm other laws.
Right of association is all we should need.
The only exception (So Far) to right of association is racial discrimination which has been written into our laws for many decades.
The premise or precedence this new bill would establish (I think) would be that homosexuality and homosexual rights are on equal footing under the law with racial status.
This of course has already been going on for some time now, with non-discrimination phrases in law which include terms like sexual orientation in the same sentence with race/age/sex. However, Now it looks like we are attempting to give religious beliefs SPECIAL rights... and once you start doing that, then everyone else will demand equal opportunities.
Brewer should veto this, and expressly state why.
People simply do not understand what they are asking for with new (preventative) laws like this.
IN a nutshell, I see it as a redundant law that can ONLY confuse the application of existing law.
The legislative branch needs to STOP reacting to bad judges with BAD law... get rid of the bad judges instead.
If she signs it, some judge will overturn it.
Mob rule
Romney is weighing in? I thought he was out after last Monty’s trial balloon after Christie’s fail. These people are stupid
Homosexuality trumps religious freedom. Here come the lawsuits against the churches.
Pray America wakes up
State laws requiring segregation of blacks from whites are another matter and are unconstitutional (14th Amendment). The feds have a Constitutional right to interfere with state laws that require segregation of blacks form whites.
However, the feds have no other Constitutional authority to interfere with any other form of discrimination on the state level and the feds have no Constitutional authority to interfere with the God given right of individuals and businesses to exercise their freedom of discrimination (freedom to choose) as they see fit.
Though it codifies the right of business owners to refuse service to homosexuals on religious grounds, would it not also let muslim business owners refuse service to, say, military veterans with service dogs, uncovered women, or in general “infidels”? Has that been addressed?
Just trying to look at the whole of the ramifications here.
Yeah, real winners, both of them.
Somebody tell me why invented rights (such as the "right" to stick your pecker in somebody else's poop chute) should trump real constitutional rights such as the first amendment.
Pat Buchanan has it right here: repeal all civil rights legislation and fire the bureaucratic army of enforcers. It served a purpose in the 1960s, maybe even into the 1970s, but the concerns which spawned it no longer exist.
Hilarious. Lets just take gay and lesion groups at their word without question, and not bother to actually read the bill to see if it truly is what those groups say.
Today's US media is a tragic farce.
I’m shocked these two would have the same position as Obama. Shocked. Wonder what Lindsey Graham thinks. Someone should ask hm if he’ll boycott AZ if she doesn’t veto it.