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Boycotting Arizona
Arizona lawmakers are already feeling the heat after passing Arizona Senate Bill 1062, which would legalize discrimination:Senate Bill 1062 re-defines and expands the state's definition of "exercise...
View ArticleRachel, Jed Lewison are mischaracterizing SB1062
In today's Rachel Maddow show (which is still going on, on the west coast), Rachel consistently kept calling it the anti-gay bill, and described the discrimination possible against gays in various...
View ArticleArizona's law isn't just LGBT-centric
This may have been discussed already, but since I'm a resident of Arizona, I'm putting my two cents worth in.Been having a facebook discussion on this bill which amends existing legislation this...
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When you think about SB1062, you get a pig chin.
When you think really hard about SB1062, you get a pig chin. Don't get a pig chin:
View ArticleThe Right's Hypocrisy Over Conscience Protections
Rarely does a bill as morally repugnant (to quote Jon Stewart) as Arizona SB 1062 actually pass a legislature. How morally repugnant it is can be measured by the fact that even Fox News balked, and...
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Politico writer says let the market, not government, stop discrimination
Rich Lowry's idea of a free market. Rich Lowry, writing for Politico, argues that Gov. Brewer's veto was a "foolish" mistake and that she was pushed into it by media hysteria. Fine, he's entitled to...
View ArticleTurning "Religious Freedom" Up to 11
Most of us are probably familiar with this:It's perhaps the most famous scene in perhaps the best fake documentary ever made, Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap. The scene is hilarious and painful at the...
View ArticleJan Brewer: Unexpectedly Impressive
So, just like everyone else in the state of Arizona, I was biting my nails until La Bruja decided to veto SB1062. I knew, deep in my guts, that she would; she's shown her pragmatism before when she...
View ArticleEven worse than Arizona SB1062: Meet Wisconsin's Religious Discrimination...
Twice, I have written about a Republican-backed proposal in Wisconsin to enact an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution that would allow for people to discriminate against others on religious...
View ArticleTea Party Nation Pres livid 1062 veoted
In a lengthy rant posted on Tea Party Nation’s website on Thursday morning, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips accused Jan Brewer of buckling under pressure from “the left and the homosexual...
View ArticleMore AZ H8
Just as AZ begins to dust the shame off of itself after the anti LGBT bill SB1062 (thankfully vetoed) I discovered that the desire to discriminate is alive and well in the retirement community of Sun...
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La Bruja Is Hanging Up Her Broom
One of the many ways our governor made herself, and by extension, the rest of us, ridiculous.From the Huffington Post:Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) announced Wednesday she will retire at the end of this...
View ArticleArizona Senate Actually does it.. 'Turn Gays Away' Passes
Of course, in a race to the crazy, it's always been a dog fight of who actually gets there first. Today, a bill most of us thought was dead after Gov. Jan Brewer refused to sign a previous version...
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Arizona okay-to-discriminate bill passes legislature, headed to Brewer's desk
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer The Arizona legislature has passed a bill that would give businesses a free pass to discriminate against LGBT customers—or any other customers they claim it would be against...
View ArticleArizona's business community nervous about anti-LGBT legislation
If they have any memory at all, they should be very nervous.Anyone who's lived in the Grand Canyon State since the early '90s probably remembers that it took the business sector, in alliance with...
View ArticleHey, let's make a religion for AZ!
The Holy Synod of the Great Orange Satan. Hmm...no...The Orthodox, no, The Anti-Orthodox Holy Communion. Wait, start from the beginning.In the Beginning was The Word, and the Word was...
View ArticleBombshell: Jeff Flake calls for veto of anti-gay Arizona bill
The usual voices have weighed in against the monstrous bill in Arizona that would allow business owners to refuse service to LGBT people on religious grounds. Well, on Saturday afternoon one of the...
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Republican scramble to distance themselves from Arizona discrimination bill...
Sign posted at Rocco's Little Chicago Pizzeria, Tucson, Arizona. Arizona state Sen. Steve Pierce, a Republican, voted for the okay-to-discriminate bill awaiting action by Gov. Jan Brewer. But—talk...
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Facing heavy pressure to veto anti-gay bill, Brewer is taking her sweet time
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is taking her sweet time deciding whether to sign the bill allowing businesses to discriminate against anyone they claim religious objections to serving. Brewer, who has been in...
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Arizona's discriminatory SB 1062 is a good thing
I don't mean the bill's discriminatory nature and bigoted intent is a good thing, of course, but the journey we have taken and where we are today have unquestionably benefited Arizona's progressives....
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Brewer denies she's decided to veto Arizona anti-gay bill
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Sources close to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer keep saying she's going to veto the bill that would allow businesses to discriminate against gay customers or basically anyone else they...
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Republicans squirm over Arizona anti-gay bill
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) If there's an upside to a state legislature passing and a governor refusing to say if she'll veto a bill that would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT customers, it's...
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Kerry 'cannot imagine' Supreme Court would let Arizona anti-gay law stand
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday, in response to a question about Arizona's okay-to-discriminate bill, that "I'm counting on the governor—I cannot imagine how that law would withstand the...
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Arizona faces economic pressure over anti-gay bill
Nice Super Bowl plans you have there, Arizona. Be a shame if anything happened to them. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is in very serious emergency meetings trying to decide if she should sign a bill allowing...
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Economic conservatives take religious conservatives for suckers
Oh noes! Not again! Will religious conservatives never learn? You watch them, and you cringe. It plays out just like it did in the classic tale of the Great Pumpkin, and the Thanksgiving special, and...
View ArticleA powerful column by Charles M. Blow
that I strongly urge you to read. in No Country for Old Mores, in today's New York Times, there is so much good writing that I cannot hope to do it justice and remain within the bounds of fair use.He...
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Brewer's veto doesn't mean discrimination bills are dead
The fight for equality is still on in the states and at the federal level. Gov. Jan Brewer may have—after enough time had passed to show that it was a tough call to make—vetoed the Arizona bill...
View ArticleSB 1062 and The Human Nature of Hate
To appreciate the import of the veto of SB 1062, you need to a know a little bit about human nature.
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Mayors to Congress: Don't let Hobby Lobby case revive anti-LGBT laws
Authored by Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a letter has been sent to congressional leaders, asking them to pass legislation that would prohibit businesses from using the Hobby Lobby decision to...
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