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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAriz. Anti-Gay Law Proposed: How will stores know who to bar?
Will, for instance, a retail store post a guard at the front door to keep out the unwelcome? How will he know whom to bar? Not all gay men, despite the stereotype, are willowy with long eyelashes, nor all lesbians burly butch. Perhaps the store, or other venues, can install TSA-type "Deviant Detector" machines, that beep when trespassed. What to do, what to do, about other persons who have crossed from one category to another?
What will happen when a straight person is misidentified by a door monitor and wrongly barred or manhandled? Lawsuits, everywhere lawsuits.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)The only justification necessary for discrimination is insert the group you hate here offends my religious craziness.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... freedumb of religion, so Arizona bigots will be able to hate whoever they like. It'll be kinda like burning witches in Salem, Mass.
If the homicide detective who arrives to investigate the murder thinks the victim might have been gay, and his religious beliefs says killing gays is OK, even recommended, well, one can't ask that he investigate, now, can one? After all, no crime has been committed as far as the detective is concerned. God always comes before Country, or in this case, State.
Where this law will fail however, is when Jan Brewer and her Republican colleagues go for a meal, or drink, and the proprietor is a person of strong faith and high moral character and refuses them service on the grounds that they are despicable bigots, which is against his faith. After all, fair's fair, and there's a lot of decent people in Arizona, despite the hateful noise made by a very vocal and politically active minority.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)and say very loudly and dramatically, "How could you do this to me, baby? Especially after last night! You...you told me you loved and would never leave me! But iff I must go, please, just one more kiss...you still have my number!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Men in the women's wear, and women in the men's wear. The ones who can slip by the "guard" should fill their carts up and start kissing their partner in the store. I wonder if they would kick you out then, or take your money and tell you not to try that again. There should be kiss-ins all around Arizona. Let them actually see what they hate. Oh the children!!!!!!!!!!!