1. Brewer is embarrassingly forced to veto an anti-gay bill....that even its REPUBLCIAN SPONSORS wanted her to veto after they passed it and saw what a disaster it was. Other Republican Governors will now think twice about pulling similar stunts in their own states. 2. Texas' ban on same-sex marriage is overturned. And the guy who will lead the fight to bring it back?....is their Attorney General Greg Abbott who is bestest buddies with a racist chickenhawk and exploiter of young girls has-been rock 'star'.
I'm so relieved that she vetoed it. I think she realized that this would open the doors not just for discrimination against gay people but for anyone we wanted to. Also plenty of businesses around here voiced their concerns over it fearing that tourists and snow birds might boycott AZ since we get a LOT of traffic here from other states, especially in the winter because of our nice weather.
It has two good results...one in Arizona, the other...in the OTHER states run by Republicans. No Republican Governor is going to want to see such a bill on his/her desk...to veto, much less sign. They'd be put in the national spotlight like Brewer and made to look foolish. BTW, I left off.....the Homophobes also lost ini Kentucky this week.
I was hoping she would pass it, only to have a giant spotlight aimed directly at these bigots. Would have been entertaining. Either way, the bill would have failed.
You know in the end, I'm glad this is the end result, but maybe we shouldn't be celebrating just yet. She didn't bow down due to her gut instincts telling her it was the right thing to do, but instead because it was businesses telling her. We need to also be looking at the fact this is just as bad a sign that business influence in our government is dangerous, just as much as this is a huge win for civil rights. Just food for thought.
Jan Brewer has no good instincts....so it took others getting her to do the right thing. She can have her "George Wallace recants and repents" moment on her own time and schedule later. - - - Updated - - - Reince Priebus and the RNC wanted the whole thing to go away....now, they hope such stuff never comes up again.
Personally, I don't really care all that much. I live on the other side of the US. Let Arizona deal with it there own way. I just note things are happening.
The tide is shifting, even within the Republican Party....new poll shows that 61% of young adult Republicans....support same-sex marriage rights.
Yeah but when you notice that most of youth vote going to the Democrats, that certainly changes things around.
That poll was of self-identified Republican younger adults (<50). They weren't going against a conservative agenda or the GOP particularly....except as it applies to gay rights. The point is, the political party that predominates opposition to gay rights (No, not completely exonerating all Democrats, but surely even the Homophobes admit their "home" is in the GOP)......is going to gradually see its older voters "move on" and the up-and-coming Republican voters are not going to be opposing marriage equality... ergo the GOP won't be opposing marriage equality.
Sure, I agree with you on that. That's not my point though. Let's say there was a club with 10 people in it. Of that 10 people, let's say 2 were young adults. If 1/2 of them wanted something, then in reality only 1 person wanted it. Sure, the numbers are extreme but still. We need to place this in context of the GOP demographics.
