In case you guys haven't heard, there was a lot of controversy in the past few weeks about the passing of State Bill 1062 in Arizona, intended to amend Section 41-1493 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, which essentially prevents "any law, including state and local laws, ordinances, rules, regulations and policies" from "substantially burden[ing]" a person's exercise of religion, unless the burden is the least restrictive means of furthering a "compelling government interest." SB1062 was going to extend said protection from "a religious assembly or institution" to include "any individual, association, partnership, corporation, church," "estate, trust, foundation or other legal entity." In simplistic terms? The bill would basically allow for religious-freedom to be an acceptable claim or defense in lawsuits "regardless of whether the government is a party to the proceeding." This means that businesses could legally refuse to serve members of the LGBT community on the grounds of using free exercise of religion to defend their own discriminatory acts. As you can imagine, anyone within earshot of the bill who at all shows sympathy for the LGBT community opposed the bill, and luckily enough, my own state governor vetoed SB 1062 (though honestly it took far too long to make such a seemingly easy decision.) Thoughts? For myself, while I think it's perfectly fine to give religious people a legal right to exercise their beliefs, there needs to be a limit to what those beliefs are: discriminating against people for their sexual orientation or state should never be defended, and it seems like this bill goes against the belief in the separation between church and state. Here's a full text of the bill if you want to see.
Arizona is my home state. I've been gone for almost a year and I've met Brewer personally and at first I read the CNN update wrong. I thought she vboted against it and it truly make me outraged. I couldn't fathum the idea she would actually vote against it because the artical is right. Brewer is for my people. And then as I read through it I saw she vetoed it. I was almost crying. My state has a huge LGBT community, and no one is afraid or ashamed of it unless it was someone ****ing deadrop religious. I guess, I'm against the compromise .. I'm tired of this bullshit of religion should always be thought off. Be consistered because this is what our country is so famous for. I don't think they should have anymore freedom. Its seriously time for a change just like Brewer said.
Technically it could have been used to discriminate again anyone and everyone. LGBT, atheists, wickans, women, adulterers ... you name it. It was facepalm worthy on a biblical scale. I can' t for the hell of me even begin to understand how that kind of bill got as much as suggested. I' ve seen interviews of some of the politicians who did, they seem barely able to put 2 and 2 together. Who the hell votes for these guys ? My 10 years old cousin is undoubtedly smarter than them all combined ! Well anyway, it doesn' t come as a surprise that the bill got repelled though. Big businesses are the ones actually running the show and it' s their freaking job to put 2 and 2 together, quite literally.
I adore Anderson cooper. He even makes me nervous and I'm just a viewer. Was this a new interview posted?
Who voted for Bush? *gets shot at* IT'S A JOKE!!! I'M NOT ANTI-REPUBLICAN!!! I'm just a neutral. And there's still other people who vote, big businesses just give them the money to be reelected. The problem is, no money in the world will save you if everyone votes against you being reelected. Ask some of the worst presidents the U.S. had that were never reelected. But that's just imho. Yeah, I'm glad this didn't get passed. I'm amazed it was passed in the first place, I'm guessing that they passed it thinking it was going to make them popular and all of a sudden they saw their popularity ratings in the state plunge to zero. Numbers change things quickly when it comes to popularity and voting.
It isn't new. I remember seeing this interview live several days ago. Anderson is great. I really don't think there's anything I could add that Anderson didn't already say better.
Yeah, that one easily stood out as the worst. I wasn' t taking a shot at Republicans, just at dumb politicians in general. To be honnest the american right wing seems to adore them, but they come in all stripes.
Ohh. Alright. I'm trying to stay up to date with this via iPhone when I can. Its very interesting because arizona Don't snt get any attention and Anderson is right. Its not in writing about being denied or fired because of being gay. And there trying so hard to do it, random and out of the blue. Blargh
