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Recently on Thursday February 20, 2014 Arizona's Legislature passed a bill that gives people the right to discriminate. The bill was constructed by a group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. They are a christian legal organization who were inspired by an incident that happened where a New Mexico wedding photographer was taken to court because he refused to shoot a same sex wedding. The bill protects businesses and religious institutions from discriminatory lawsuits if they can prove their actions were motivated by religious convictions. However, the issue is that this bill allows businesses to possibly discriminate against anyone. Not just Jews, Muslims, Atheists, homosexuals, but potentially anyone. The bill now sits on Governor Jan Brewer's has five days to either sign or reject the bill.
To me this bill is insane. I understand that businesses have the right to conduct business with who they please. However, I'd like to think these businesses would use this right in cases where the customer was clearly detrimental to the business. Now if the only reason a business wasn't going to accommodate someone was because of who they are that's when it becomes completely outrages. Its obvious that people are going to have differing opinions, views, and religions. However, to not associate with someone based on the sole fact that they have a different religion or opinion than you is close-minded and quite frankly selfish. I don't understand why people have tolerance issues. Why can't we all just recognize that we have different views, and move on? Why are these different views constantly the determining the dynamics of the relationships we have with other people? Furthermore, this bill seems eerily similar to the beginnings of other human oppression incidents such as Jim Crow laws, Japanese-American Internment, and even the Holocaust. Absolutely ridiculous.
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