I'm just saying'

L.A. Times reported today that the Arizona state legislature has introduced a bill that bolsters the right of businesses to refuse service to gay customers.  The governor says she will decide by Friday if she will sign the bill into law.  She and Republican legislators say their bill is intended to protect religious freedom. Will these people never learn?  I’m beginning to wonder if somebody has been putting stupid pills into the drinking water systems of some of the regions of our country… specifically in Arizona .  Studies show that an equally ridiculous piece of discriminatory immigration legislation SB 1070 that was passed by the legislature in 2010 and signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer cost Arizona more than $23 million in lost tax revenue and at least $350 million in direct spending by would-be attendees to cancelled conventions and other events. The state is hosting Super Bowl XLIX and several other major events in the coming year.  Haven’t they figured out that reasonable people, including some companies not in the Koch Brothers’ camp will boycott Arizona if they actually pass this blatantly discriminatory bill.

The other thing that mystifies me is that with all the very real troubles in the world that need to be urgently addressed these people remain focused on same-gender love relationships.  What’s that about?  What’s the problem? It’s not possible that they really believe the Leviticus shit was dispensed by God.  If they actually believed those absurd laws are legitimate, they would be regularly burning, stoning or otherwise executing citizens for committing adultery, for wearing clothing made of the wrong stuff, for eating shell fish and pulled pork sandwiches, and for banging farm animals in hard times. Their focus on same gender relationships is at least odd… preoccupation with how same-gender people “do it” is downright perverse... if that's what's bugging them.  Hasn’t Arizona Republican State Representative Paul Boyer heard about the very real problems faced by his state and by his neighbor states in this time of serious drought?  Has he been drinking Michelle Bachmann’s kool-aid and decided to believe God is punishing American because LGBT individuals are recognized as legitimate citizens by the Federal Government and are allowed to marry whomever they love in many states?  If that's it, take a little time and try to get over it. Breathe deeply.