Arizona's Religious Freedom "Discrimination" Law

So, as you may know, both the Senate and the House in Arizona has passed a bill that many are calling anti-gay.  In fact, it is pro Christian and anti-gay.  The law boils down to this: The bill would amend an existing law to give any individual or legal entity an exemption from any state law that substantially burdens their exercise of religion, including Arizona law requiring public accommodation  regardless of a customer's race, color, national origin, sex, religion, and disability.  This means that any religious person can choose to discriminate against anyone, including based on sexual orientation(which, indeed, is what is intended by the bill).

Watch this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/anderson-cooper-arizona-anti-gay-law_n_4852674.html

If you didn't watch, I'll summarize.  Anderson Cooper presents hypothetical situations to this senator(also a candidate for governor) regarding the law.  The situations he brings up involve an unwed mother or a divorced woman trying to get a loan from a loan officer who is very conservative Christian.  Anderson says that the Bible (and Jesus, particularly) says some harsh things about people who are divorced or who have had children outside of marriage (and he points out that Jesus never talks about homosexuality).  The senator says that these situations are ridiculous and without basis (he obviously doesn't know his Bible).  So Anderson says, well then, the law is targeting gay people, but Arizona has no law against discrimination based upon sexual orientation, so this law is unnecessary.  And the senator is like, well, we don't what happened in other states to happen here.  And Anderson says, um, it can't, because you don't have any laws that protect sexual orientation.  And the senator says that this law is needed because the traditional family structure is being attacked and Anderson has a law expert come in and say that his hypothetical situations are an accurate reading of the law and that sexual orientation can already be used as a method of discrimination.  And the senator repeats his talking points and says that there are no people(not one) in Arizona who discriminate...well, except for those who would follow this law(but forget that...he didn't actually say that).

So, these people in Arizona made a bill that would invalidate their anti-discrimination laws.  It's going to go over real well with the Supreme Court.  Which means that other states may be afraid to make laws like this.  Somehow, I don't think that the anti-gay people who made up this bill thought it through.

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