{"id":4863,"date":"2014-02-26T03:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2014-02-26T03:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:56:40","slug":"veto-the-bill-gov-brewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"Veto the bill, Gov. Brewer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer probably doesn’t care what a Texas blogger thinks of a bill that’s sitting on her desk.<\/p>\n

I’ll say it anyway. I hope she vetoes the bill, as many key Republicans in her state think she’ll do.<\/p>\n

The bill allows people to deny services to people based on their sexual orientation. It’s proponents call it a bill to protect people’s “religious freedom.” They contend it enables people to act on their faith principles by denying individuals services if they are gay.<\/p>\n

I see it as a bill that sanctions discriminations, that denies people their civil rights that federal and state laws are supposed to provide for them.<\/p>\n

It’s gotten a lot of debate in recent days. The Arizona Legislature approved it and sent it to Gov. Brewer’s desk. She’s been out of town, attending a Republican Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C., where she and other GOP governors met with President Obama.<\/p>\n

Many organizations have vowed to boycott the state. The National Football League has talked openly about pulling the Super Bowl from Arizona next year if this law takes effect.<\/p>\n

It’s becoming an economics issue as well as a human rights issue.<\/p>\n

Whatever. The bill shouldn’t become law.<\/p>\n

Gov. Jan Brewer has it within her power to prevent it. Unsheathe your veto pen, governor.<\/p>\n\n

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer probably doesn’t care what a Texas blogger thinks of a bill that’s sitting on her desk. I’ll say it anyway. I hope she vetoes the bill, as many key Republicans in her state think she’ll do. The bill allows people to deny services to people based on their sexual orientation. It’s … Continue reading Veto the bill, Gov. Brewer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}