Fact-Checkers Inexplicably Conclude Arizona's Anti-Gay Bill Isn't Anti-Gay
Source: talkingpointsmemo.com
A fact-checking organization run by Arizona media outlets concluded on Tuesday that the anti-gay legislation that has created a national firestorm in the state is not, in fact, discriminatory.
The organization examined an Arizona lawmaker's statement about the bill, known as SB 1062.
"This (bill) is not a discrimination bill," state Rep. Adam Kwasman (R) said. "It makes no mention of sexual orientation."
The fact-checking group -- a collaboration between the Arizona Republic, KPNX and Arizona State University's journalism school -- rated that statement "true." It reached that conclusion because the bill doesn't explicitly mention sexual orientation and Arizona law doesn't protect gay people through its anti-discrimination statute.
But right before its conclusion, the analysis noted that the bill's sponsors had outright said that the legislation was motivated in part by the case of a New Mexico wedding photographer who refused to provide services to a same-sex couple.
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alsame
(7,784 posts)broad enough to justify discrimination against anyone, not just LGBT.
Any person who is deemed offensive to the Christian Taliban could be discriminated against.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)And that's where the fun really starts! Just think, religoulous people can also discriminate against atheists, unmarried women, the poor, and anyone else who offends them...and that list is quite long.
edit: typos!
alsame
(7,784 posts)the impetus for this bill, it could be used against anyone.
RoverSuswade
(641 posts)The IRS does really NOT want you to pay your taxes.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Really? Journalists making legal analysis never ends well.
A federal court will find animus, you miserable asshole "journalists." Why? Because you stood in the fucking legislature and talked about having to bake gays a cake. That's called "findings" you shitholes, and reasons why you miserable fuckers wrote the legislation. Somebody needs to depose these asshats.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)As long as you have sincerely held religious beliefs, he can discriminate. It is a true statement that the bill makes no mention of sexual orientation. So we should conclude it means anything.
If a couple comes into a diner in Arizona, perhaps they shouldn't expect to be served, at least not if they're of the same sex or a different race.
Perhaps that's OK. After all, they'll just go somewhere where business is done the American way and everybody is welcome. Meanwhile, the owner of the more discriminating diner who claims to be carrying a cross will take that cross out to a farm field and burn it.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)The TeaTerrorists sure do hate Americans.
frylock
(34,825 posts)marble falls
(57,106 posts)Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)maindawg
(1,151 posts)just keep sayng that.