Arizona governor vetoes anti-gay bill passed by right-wing legislature

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/arizona-governor-vetoes-anti-gay-bill

ETA  A similar bill was withdrawn by politicians in Ohio on Wednesday. They conceded there was a risk that what they had envisaged as a law to protect religious freedom might encourage discrimination.

The news came a couple of hours after a legal ruling in Texas that appears to be a significant boost to proponents of marriage equality. A federal judge voided the state’s ban on gay marriage, saying it did not comply with the US constitution and demeaned the dignity of gay people.

Arizona governor Jan Brewer has struck down a controversial law that opponents said would have allowed businesses in the state to discriminate against gay and lesbian people for religious reasons.

Good, I am sick of hearing about religious bigots.

bb1 wrote:Arizona governor Jan Brewer has struck down a controversial law that opponents said would have allowed businesses in the state to discriminate against gay and lesbian people for religious reasons.

Good, I am sick of hearing about religious bigots.

I am not gay, but I have many gay friends so any process that demeans them or removess their human rights is anathema to me. I understood that, according to something called the Bible that ALL humans wre made by God in his own image, which would include color, race, creed and sexual orientation. Do you think people like bennett, with his rampant homophobia, has ever actually read the Bible? And with due respect to peoples' beliefs, where does it say in the aformentioned Holy Book that Jews and Muslims are not human? LL

As I said of Bennett, LL, these people are actually committing the ultimate blasphemy, because they've created a god in their own image - as a nasty, ignorant bigot.