Posted on 02/27/2014 12:56:45 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Hispanic National Bar Association on Wednesday said it cancelled its 2015 convention in Phoenix over legislation adding protections for people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays.
The move makes the group one of the first to pull out of Arizona because of the proposed law. President Miguel Alexander Pozo says the group views the controversy as a civil rights issue. "Laws that return us to a darker time in the nation's history simply cannot be tolerated," he said in a news release.
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Screw them.
Golly. Fewer race-baiting lawyers in Arizona! How is that a bad thing?
I wonder if a White Lawyers Conference would fly?
Sounds rather intolerant to me.
Let them hatch their plans to flood the country with illegals, somewhere else.
What is that?
Actually, the LAST thing Arizona needs is a bunch of pandering Hispanic lawyers, IMO.
Even though the legislation was vetoed, the mexis are going to thumb their nose at Arizona anyway.
Judicial Fiat, on the other hand, that compels people to perform services that violate their personal beliefs, is just peachy keen to these litigious whores.
See what appeasement gets you??
Are they not doing exactly what they’re complaining about?
Discriminating???
Apparently only they get to pick and choose who they do business with...
And here I thought we all had the constitutional right to freedom of association...
/src on/But but Jeb Bush and his ilk tell me Latinos are natural members of the GOP because they are social conservatives and religious./src off/ Just another piece of evidence that is pure BS.
I yearn for 1846 to 1848.
Oh dear, religous freedom is evilllll. Time to rewrite the 1st amendment/s
I predict we will see boycotts of states which have not yet embraced homosexual marriage. Or global warming. Or which have passed laws li iting abortion on demand. Or any other liberal cause of the day.
Years ago, some states were boycotted by national organizations if they had not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. We could see this happen again with marriage or any other liberal cause.
I hope the NFL still yanks the LoserBowl. It is going to take something on that scale to wake up the dead heads that this is a loser - lose deal when you fight on their terms.
Almost every one I have met that immigrated here is JW or some kind of Evangelical.
don’t let the piñata hit you in the @$$ on the way outta Arizona. as a matter of fact take all your illegal la raza bros with you.....
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