#sb1062

Cathi Herrod, Goldwater Institute, & AZ Taxpayer PAC Spread Medicaid Lies on Twitter

While following the ongoing #HobbyLobby Twitter storm recently, I bumped into several Tweets by the Arizona Taxpayer Action Committee. (I have no idea how things like this get into my Twitter feed.) What caught my eye was that Goldwater Institute and Center for Arizona Policy documents were linked to the Tweets and former Arizona Legislator and Medicaid-expansion denier Frank Antenori…

I just enter in with:

"So this is America. We mainly determine political choices by a popular vote system. SO, imagine if we can vote on your disagreement of the Veto on SB1062. There is still a chance you just COULD(maybe, idk actually) win that popular vote to bring back SB1062 BUT Jan Brewer would still veto your decision."

So a bill under consideration in Arizona would allow a business owner to refuse service to gays and others if the owner believes that doing so violates the practice and observance of his or her religion. So, the question that I would ask (besides the obvious one of constitutionality), is how do you determine if a customer is gay? Perhaps we should require them to sew rainbow badges on their coats. Or how about African-Americans or Jews or Mormons or Catholics?

Gregory Holman, via email

Post SB1062: Arizona’s Christian Extremists Make Headlines with More Legislation

Arizona’s anti-gay “religious freedom” bill (SB1062) met with a swift and forceful negative response in the streets, on social media, and on national television. Responding to pressure by business interests and worried about losing Super Bowl 2015, Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the bill.

Now that the tide of religious extremism has been thwarted, everyone can relax, right? Not hardly. SB1062 was…

Human Dignity is all we need to fight discrimination

If Tea Party governor Jan Brewer had signed it into law, Arizona’s SB1062 would have legally allowed business owners to deny service to anyone that offended their religious sensibilities. Furthermore, the wording of the bill denied government the right to enforce equal treatment laws and statutes, except insofar as they minimally ‘burdened’ the religious person’s ‘freedom of practice.’ The…