Arizona Governor, as Expected, Vetoes Anti Gay SB 1062...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, using her Executive pen, vetoed SB 1062, the anti gay bill that would have given businesses the right to refuse services to LGBT couples on religious grounds. While this site agrees with the Governor's veto decisions many do not. In an op-ed piece this morning Rich Lowry , writing in POLITICO , puts forth an opinion and his argument that the veto was both unnecessary and foolish. His reasoning is arguably based on sound logic. Here then is Rick Lowry: In addition to the federal government, 18 states have such statutes and about a dozen other states interpret their state constitutions as extending the same protections, according to the letter. The statutes, the scholars write, “say that before government can burden a person’s religious exercise, the government has to show a compelling justification.” The letter argues that, properly interpreted, the federal law that inspired the Arizon...