have protected them from? it would have protected the photographer, the florist from having to participate in basically approving a same sex commitment ceremony or wedding. you take the pharmacy owner who doesn t want to distribute abortion medication, this individual should be able to live world to their faith and not have the government compel them. this is about the government coercion and what the power of the law is going to be. bluntly, you ve been accused of a lot of stuff over the past week or so. are you homophobic? no. are you a hater? no. do you want to see people put out of business and destroyed or discriminated against? absolutely not. i have a great concern that we as americans, that we have the freedom to exercise our religious belief and we re not confined to the four walls of our church, that every american whether you have faith or no faith that you have the freedom to do what our founders intended
have protected them from? it would have protected the photographer, the florist from having to participate in basically approving a same sex commitment ceremony or wedding. you take the pharmacy owner who doesn t want to distribute abortion medication, this individual should be able to live world to their faith and not have the government compel them. the government coercion and what the power of the law is going to be. bluntly, you ve been accused of a lot of stuff over the past week or so. are you homophobic? no. are you a hater? no. do you want to see people put out of business and destroyed or discriminated against? absolutely not. i have a great concern that we as americans, that we have the freedom to exercise our religious belief and we re not confined to the four walls of our church, that every american whether you have faith or no faith that you have the freedom to do what our founders intended
nobody is willing either tonight or in your prior interviews to say the word gay in defending bill. an entire interview they tap danced around the word gay. if you go to yarbrough, he was up front about saying the situation in new mexico where a photographer was forced to take photographs of same sex couples commitment ceremony or wedding. she was sued because she wouldn t in new mexico which violates the state statutes in new mexico protecting discrimination against people based on sexual orientation. but you re right. early on a lot of lawmakers were pointing to that what happened in new mexico as the reason. you don t hear people now pointing to that anymore. exactly. with regard to we weren t on notice about this or this has been horribly distorted, the legislative hearing is online. so i d really encourage people to just go to just google arizona legislature and then you can type in sb 1062 and then watch the proceedings.
arizona law governor jan brewer is considering signing or vetoing. it leaves the discriminatory passages in place before the civil rights law of 1964. as you heard earlier in the show, the real origins of the law are much more recent and also ironic. right now about 1/4 of u.s. states have some version of the religious freedom restoration act and it s that act that sb 1062 is looking to amend. but the push didn t begin because of individuals having the religious rituals subjected to the criminal justice system, it started because of bigotry. last year a new mexico court ruled against the owners of a photography business that declined a lesbian couple who wanted pictures for their commitment ceremony. the photographer cited their christian believes yaian belie sorry, no service. they re pushing that and model legislation just like it and ten other states are looking to codify into the law. sorry, no service.
photographs of a lesbian commitment ceremony, saying this would violate her religion if she did so. now, that was a violation of new mexico s ordnances which ban, so a lawsuit was brought and the photographer was hey, this is my religious belief that this is sinful and i can t take pictures of a commitment ceremony. now, if you were to extend that law, well, why couldn t sears say when gay people come in and want to have a portrait taken together, that it s against the religious belief of the corporation because the arizona law extends this now to corporations and you could have all kinds of discrimination in public accommodations. hotels, restaurants, all of these places could refuse to serve gay people based on this excepti exception. you hear the lawyer saying well, that s not really going to happen, but it could because if you have a sincere belief under