Chandler legislator pushing for law that allows businesses to
discriminate against homosexuals, other groups - East Valley
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Updated: 6:23 pm, Tue Mar 11, 2014.  A veteran state lawmaker is
pushing legislation that would allow businesses to discriminate
against gays — and maybe even women and Jews — as long as they
were acting on sincerely held religious beliefs.  SB 1062 would
allow those sued in civil cases to claim that they have a legal
right to decide not to provide their services to any individual
or group because it would “substantially burden” their freedom
of religion. That specifically means doing something that the
person feels is contrary to their religious teachings.  Sen.
Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler, said the measure is aimed
specifically at preventing what happened in New Mexico where
courts there said a gay couple could sue a wedding photographer
who turned away their re