of the proposed amendments to this bill is to say you can discriminate under sb-1062, but you have to say i m doing it on conscientious objective grounds. so you would have to put a sign in your window saying, i m a conscientious objective to gay people. under this new bill, you don t have to explain why you re refusing? under this bill, you do not have to do that. the proposed amendment that would have forced them to be held accountable was voted down. i thought what the senator was doing in his exchange with you just now was a more individualistic version of what happened on the senate floor. he didn t want to come out and say it, because it s not nice to say we discriminate against anyone.
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she considers herself someone who wants to protect and promote arizona s economic interest. she knows there will be massive economic retribution against her state if there s a law in the books that is seen as codifying discrimination. last year she vetoed a very similar bill. al melvin, he voted for the bill, he wants governor brewer to sign it. he s running for governor of the state. here s part one of the interview. senator, this law came about in reaction to cases in other states where people have been sued because they refused to contribute to a same sex wedsing. i know you say this is an attempt in arizona to protect people s religious beliefs. the places where it s occurred are states that have laws against discriminating against people based on sexual
i don t know of anybody that would advocate that or stand for it. okay. but under this law, you say it s all about protecting people of faith in arizona. can you give me a specific example of someone in arizona who s been forced to do something against their religious belief or successfully sued because of their faith? again, i think if anything, you this bill is preemptive to protect priests. you can t give me one example of this actually happening? no, i can t. we ve seen it in other states and we don t want it to happen here. but it s happened in other states that have laws protecting gay people specifically, that s what this bill is all about. in arizona they don t have laws protecting gay people so it can t happen in arizona? well, sir the bottom line is, this is not a discrimination
about the painkiller that most pregnant women are told to take. how safe is the active ingredient in tylenol and so many other pain pills. we begin keeping them honest on arizona senate bill 1062, legislation that would allow businesses to refuse service on the basis of religious beliefs of anywhere owners. refusing service to gays, lesbians, unmarried mothers, unmarried couples. virtually anyone who is isn t already protected under the federal rights act. this bill faces strong opposition from gay and lesbian people in arizona and others. they do not show opposition to the bill from others who fear that sb-62 will lead to boycotts of the state. others have said they want governor brewer to veto it. one of them defends their