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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2014, 09:52 PM Jan 2014

Arizona bill allows businesses to discriminate against unmarried women, non-Christians

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/20/arizona-bill-allows-businesses-to-discriminate-against-unmarried-women-non-christians/

Experts are warning that a bill making its way through the Arizona legislature would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT people, unmarried women or even non-Christians.

Republican state Sen. Steve Yarbrough has said that he introduced Senate Bill 1062 because a “modest clarification” was needed in the state’s religious-freedom law, according to The Arizona Republic.

Among other things, the bill would expand those protected by the religious-freedom law for religious assemblies and institutions to “any individual, association, partnership, corporation, church, religious assembly or institution, estate, trust, foundation or other legal entity.”

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Arizona bill allows businesses to discriminate against unmarried women, non-Christians (Original Post) TalkingDog Jan 2014 OP

So "No Jews Allowed On Premises" will be legal for AZ businesses jberryhill Jan 2014 #1

actually you still can't discriminate against religion dsc Jan 2014 #2

They hate civil rights and they hate equal protection under the law... YoungDemCA Jan 2014 #3

How embarrassing the Republican Party is. JaneyVee Jan 2014 #4

“In no way does this bill allow discrimination of any kind,” he said. Solly Mack Jan 2014 #5

What? shenmue Jan 2014 #6

sometimes i'm ashamed to say i live here. DesertFlower Jan 2014 #7

We can go to Laughlin Nevada now-a-days and never have to go into Bullhead City AZ at all. Tikki Jan 2014 #8

Oh, good. One more way to keep those pesky unmarried women from competing from men in the workplace. Squinch Jan 2014 #9

The feds are going to have to take control and stop these theocrats from imposing Zorra Jan 2014 #10

I think the point with the bill is to give religious rights to corporations. Like what Hobby Lobby okaawhatever Jan 2014 #11

but don't call it sharia. pansypoo53219 Jan 2014 #12

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

1. So "No Jews Allowed On Premises" will be legal for AZ businesses

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:14 PM

Jan 2014

Just great.

dsc

(52,162 posts)

2. actually you still can't discriminate against religion

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:17 PM

Jan 2014

that is against federal law.

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)

3. They hate civil rights and they hate equal protection under the law...

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:17 PM

Jan 2014

..and they are doing their best to gut those.

So fucking transparent.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

4. How embarrassing the Republican Party is.

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:19 PM

Jan 2014

Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)

5. “In no way does this bill allow discrimination of any kind,” he said.

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:19 PM

Jan 2014

What a POS.

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

6. What?

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:28 PM

Jan 2014

Stupid, evil shit.

DesertFlower

(11,649 posts)

7. sometimes i'm ashamed to say i live here.

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:36 PM

Jan 2014

it's a beautiful place, but the politics suck.

Tikki

(14,557 posts)

8. We can go to Laughlin Nevada now-a-days and never have to go into Bullhead City AZ at all.

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:47 PM

Jan 2014

We almost quit making our yearly visit to Laughlin because we didn't want to have to go to AZ just to get things.
Laughlin has grown enough so we never have to cross the Colorado River into AZ and believe me…WE DON'T.

The Tikkis
ps Nevada even developed a part along their side of the river for picnics and fishing and such…Thanks NV.

Squinch

(50,949 posts)

9. Oh, good. One more way to keep those pesky unmarried women from competing from men in the workplace.

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:49 PM

Jan 2014

It's these oblique attacks that worry me. We never see them coming, and from the wording it isn't immediately clear that this is an attack on women's and LGBT rights.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

10. The feds are going to have to take control and stop these theocrats from imposing

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:58 PM

Jan 2014

their religion induced authoritarian insanity on the rest of us.

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)

11. I think the point with the bill is to give religious rights to corporations. Like what Hobby Lobby

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 11:15 PM

Jan 2014

is claiming for their company in an attempt to invalidate Obamacare. It's important that we stop the "corporations have the same rights as individuals" bullcrap. That's clearly what Steve Yarbrough is trying to do here.

pansypoo53219

(20,977 posts)

12. but don't call it sharia.

Reply to TalkingDog (Original post)

Tue Jan 21, 2014, 04:41 AM

Jan 2014

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