PHOENIX — As the Arizona Legislature sent a bill to her desk Monday that would grant business owners the right to invoke religion to refuse service to gays and others, Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, faced pressure from many corners to veto the measure, which has cast unwanted national attention on Arizona.
Elected officials, civic leaders and business groups spoke out publicly against the measure, which passed both houses of the Legislature on Thursday.
On Twitter, Arizona’s United States senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, also Republicans, had nearly identical posts, with both of them saying they hoped Ms. Brewer would veto the bill. An executive from Apple Inc., which plans to build a big manufacturing plant in Mesa, called Ms. Brewer to urge her to reject it, and W. Douglas Parker, chairman and chief executive of American Airlines, sent her a letter citing the state’s “economic comeback” and saying, “There is genuine concern throughout the business community that this bill, if signed into law, would jeopardize all that has been accomplished so far.”
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7 comments:
Business owners should always have the right to refuse anything or anybody.
2:23 - agreed.
This bill on the other hand has some parts that are not completely right. Too bad she doesn't have a line-item-veto!
Business has spoken they don't want this bill. Bible thumpers and home school types pushing this, not business folks.
One step toward bringing back Jim Crow laws. New target, same effect.
Republicans love to pass laws that support the legal profession with millions and millions of dollars to defend stupid laws that lose. They get paid no matter the outcome, win for the lawyers.
OH no...stand your Ground Arizona...
"jeopardize all that has been accomplished so far.” (in legalizing perverted sexual deviance and allowing mantally ill people into the mainstream as normal)
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