ARIZONA GOVERNOR VETOES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BILL

AP ^ | 2/26/14 | BOB CHRISTIE

[markomalley]

Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday vetoed a Republican bill that set off a national debate over gay rights, religion and discrimination and subjected Arizona to blistering criticism from major corporations and political leaders from both parties.

Brewer's decision defused a national furor over gay rights and religious freedom.

The bill backed by Republicans in the Legislature was designed to give added protection from lawsuits to people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays. But opponents called it an open attack on gays that invited discrimination.

The bill thrust Arizona into the national spotlight last week after both chambers of the state legislature approved it. As the days passed, more and more groups, politicians and average citizens weighed in against Senate Bill 1062. Many took to social media to criticize the bill, calling it an attack on gay and lesbian rights.

[Hugh the Scot]

other than the fact that your examples are shown as decisions made by employees, rather than the business owners, I see no problem at all with those decisions. If a gay bakery doesn’t want to bake a hetero cake for my birthday... Well, I don’t want to force them to violate their principles. I’m quite sure there’s another bakery that would appreciate my business. See? Freedom of association.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Everything in “the hell.”

And it’ll keep on like this in this mortal coil till people get really serious about God again.

[wardaddy]

what they’re really after is a control what is preached in churches

milestoneto totally break down all moral and social infrastructure in our culture to achieve ultimate goal

[cva66snipe]

Well I bet you most of the RINO’s insisting on Veto have a family member they ENABLE in their destructive lifestyle and think all others should as well.

It's anyones right to refuse service when it violates ones moral conscience. Who do we obey GOD or Extorting Marxist? If someone ones doesn't want to bake the Homo's a cake then the Homo's should go elsewhere. Let the market sort it out not our Marxist government.

This is government sanctioned Extortion. Serve Homo's against your conscience or else you loose your business and all you have worked for? Such politicians are Tyrants and Thugs.

The Radical Looking for a fight Homosexuals are fixing to force this into a situation where people start giving retribution to them. Maybe that's what the perverts want perhaps? No one owes another person acceptance of their sexual perversions nor enabling thereof.

[ResisTyr]

Yeah...this will not end pretty...once they start confiscating the land under Christian churches and closing them due to massive monetary court penalties that cannot be paid...and throwing Christians ministers & congregants in jail. There shall be blood in the streets...It’s coming.

[ResisTyr]

I was done with the NFL once I saw that half-time show have now become Satanic rituals. DONE, DONE, DONE!

[Cheerio]

She bowed to the NFL thugs, and their perversion mafia whom they seem to have now embraced.

She could not stomach another battle like she went through on SB 1070 with ILLEGAL ALIENS. The GAY MAFIA is much more powerful than the ILLEGAL ALIEN supporters - must have GAY MARRIAGE.
IS ANYONE ON FR FOOLISH ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THIS IS THE END OF GAYS AND RELIGEOUS PROSECUTION? This will not end until the Bible is banned as hate speech and all ministers are shut up permanently.

Germany in the making right before our eyes, and yet we all sit around watching the NFL and cower when they threaten to move the SUPER BOWL.

[Girlene]

Thanks for posting the bill. So if I'm a photographer who does not want to take "wedding" photos for a lesbian couple, am I not able to refuse purely on moral grounds? It appears I have to show my decision is based on my religious beliefs, not just my opinion, my morals. How can a government force a business to provide a good or service it does not want to make, regardless of the "why"?

Didn't the 13th amendment do away with slavery? It says as follows:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

[Cheerio]

Muslims ALREADY refuse to drive cabs with passengers carrying alcohol from and to the Minneapolis-St.Paul airport. Muslim Target check out clerks ALREADY refuse to check out bacon. Want me to go on?

[Girlene]

so, a merchant MUST bake a wedding cake for two homosexuals. a florist MUST make a flower arrangement for two lesbians. a Christian preacher MUST rent his next door duplex to two transgenders. Religious freedom? That’s so 2012!

Why are we merely focusing on religious freedom? Shouldn't it just be freedom to not provide a service based on personal preferences? Are there not plenty of florists/cakemakers, available to do the job. How are these people being harmed when they are refused? That's what I don't get.

[ResisTyr]

Apparently, amongst the small gay circle in Chicago, it was a well known fact that zer0 attended gay bath houses there when he was a nobody. Just saying...

[Pollster1]

Those rights no longer apply under the Living Constitution. You can either:

(1) lie to the gay-activist customer, most likely accepting the job and then cancelling either a few days later or at the last minute due to a personal/family issue/emergency or health reasons (a polite way of saying that perverts make you ill), or

(2) face unjust courts knowing that you will probably lose, just as MLK accepted the punishment of unjust laws.

I respect either option, given the need to weigh the family costs of overtly fighting evil against the morality of using dishonesty to avoid evil and leaving the fight to others.

[Cheerio]

what they’re really after is a control what is preached in churches

BINGO - see my post #127 (http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3127393/posts?page=127#127)

[Oliviaforever]

That’s all quite different as they are Muslims.

[steve86]

All Christian owned businesses need to post HUGE signs in their windows, promising that a good percentage of their proceeds will be donated to Christian charities as well as traditional marriage groups.

You are naive. They would be vandalized, bombed, forced to close due to "promotion of 'bigotry'".

[Absolutely Nobama]

“Not I,” said The Cat in a Hat.

[Friendofgeorge]

Golf channel and MSM is all over golfer Elkington, they want him run out of town because he made a joke about the recently outed gay football player

somewhat related

On Jan Brewer? She got away with a lot because she seemed tough on immigration

Any of us that followed her moves are not surprised

[magna carta]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/02/us-france-protests-idUSBREA110AG20140202

[Democrat_media]

yes done with the stupid NFL

ask yourselves why the liberal news media pays so much attention to stupid sports like the NFL, olympics etc. it’s to distract us from the crimes Obama and the democrats are committing like sicking the IRS on conservatives and Republicans. boycott the stupid stupid NFL and the stupid olympics, the stupid news, all of the stupid mainstream media. the media are the enemy

[cva66snipe]

I am disappointing but I understand, normal hardworking Americans would be unfairly punished if she signed.

This nation hasn't seen punishment if it keeps on embracing and enabling open Homosexuality. GOD most certainly judged Sodom and Gomorrah. Care to tell us why he would not judge the United States as well? Yes it is that serious an issue. Do you not think it unfair punishment to loose ones life savings and business for not baking homo's their stinking so called wedding cake? It's extortion and the government is allowing Homosexuals to do it.