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Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma (R-Peoria) condemned Democratic lawmakers for organizing a drag story hour at the state Capitol on Tuesday morning.Democratic Rep. Lorena Austin (D-Mesa) organized the event, held in the basement of the Arizona House, with the help of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona.
A state legislator on Monday used his time delivering a sermon that said a holiday to celebrate trans people was “dark,” proof of America being “unrighteous,” and then denounced non-Christians. The sermon was given as the House of Representatives opened its daily floor session, during which lawmakers convene to vote on bills passed through committees. Every day, the House and […] The post A GOP lawmaker called the US ‘unrighteous’ because of LGBTQ people and non-Christians appeared first on Ariz
Republican lawmakers at the Arizona Legislature advanced multiple immigration bills Wednesday that drew comparisons to the controversial SB 1070 immigration law that passed over a decade ago.Sen. Janae Shamp’s (R-Surprise) Senate Bill 1231, also called the Arizona Border Invasion Act, would make it a state crime to cross Arizona’s southern border illegally.It would essentially
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a measure that would have prohibited schools from referring to transgender youth by their preferred pronouns.