{"id":1965,"date":"2014-03-02T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T12:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:56:16","slug":"my-opinion-on-arizonas-anti-gay-sb1062-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/my-opinion-on-arizonas-anti-gay-sb1062-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"MY OPINION on Arizona’s “Anti-Gay” SB#1062 Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If a wedding company received an inquiry that conflicted with an owners religious beliefs; that owner, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, could exercise their First Amendment “Right of Freedom of Speech,” and refuse the offer of business. \u00a0In other words, a business has the right to refuse to do business with anyone, for whatever reason they choose. \u00a0 We see this sign quite often in many establishments. \u00a0 If you are a butt-head, rude, an idiot, shirtless, or did anything that conflicted morally with that business, they had the right to refuse to offer you service. \u00a0 Arizona’s <\/span>former bill<\/span>, SB#1062, would make it unlawful for money hungry lawyers to sue a businesses when that said owner exercised their religious freedom as the reason why service had been refused. \u00a0<\/span>So a Catholic congregation who refused to marry any Catholic couple in the their church, who had not gone though proper marriage counseling, could not get sued. A Muslim Imam who refused to perform a Christian wedding, would not have to fear the law. \u00a0And a photographer who taught Christian Sunday School, could freely deny the request to shoot the wedding of a same-sex couple, due to conflicting religious moral issues, could do so, without the fear of a lawsuit.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The media improperly labeled the bill as”anti-gay” and predicted that a barrage of “religious bigoted” companies, from restaurants to big boxes, would then be given the opportunity to discriminate feely against same-sex customers. \u00a0“Without the fear of a lawsuit, companies were free to discriminate” the media echoed on every station. \u00a0 And in a very short time, this very same theory was echoed throughout social media. \u00a0And almost over night, Arizona was ground zero for same-sex rallies.<\/p>\n

But like in many cases, social media and the main-stream-media had once again given birth to a misinformed crowd, who were collectively convinced that the bill would give birth to discrimination, and all things evil. \u00a0Arizona was labeled “ground-zero” for the birth of gay segregation even though not one business in Arizona had refused the business of any same-sex couple. \u00a0 \u00a0Politicians, large and small companies, joined the rally to overturn the law, and in a very short time, the Governor vetoed SB#1062.<\/p>\n