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“The Bill Is Blatantly Unconstitutional”
Says National Center for Lesbian Rights Director
Says National Center for Lesbian Rights Director
CBN News, Friday, February 21, 2014 — The Arizona legislature has approved a measure that protects business owners who refuse to serve gays based on their religious beliefs.The bill, which passed the state House Thursday in 33-27 vote, allows individuals, churches, and businesses accused of discrimination to claim religious freedom as a defense.
Supporters said the legislation is needed to protect against increasingly activist federal courts.
"Please, I will accept you because you are a child of God, I love you because you are a child of God," State Rep. Steve Montenegro, R-District 12, said. "But please don't ask me to go against my religious beliefs."
But gay rights activists argue the measure will allow discrimination against gays.
"The Arizona Senate bill is blatantly unconstitutional," the Los Angeles Times quoted Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
"It violates the requirement of equal protection of the laws by openly singling out a particular group of people and saying it's okay to discriminate against them," she said.
The bill will now head to the office of Gov. Jan Brewer for her signature. » Full Article
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TED NUGENT APOLOGIZES FOR CALLING OBAMA A ‘SUBHUMAN MONGREL’
Nugent Made Comment Prior To Campaign
Associated Press, AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ted Nugent “rightly apologized” for degrading comments that resurfaced after Abbott welcomed the polarizing rocker to his campaign for Texas governor.
But Abbott in a statement Friday didn’t back away from inviting Nugent in the first place. He said “it’s time to move beyond this” after his appearance with Nugent put Abbott on the defensive for one of the first times in his campaign.
Nugent last month called President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel” in an interview. He apologized earlier Friday after Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky disavowed the remark.
Abbott said Nugent’s comment was “not the kind of language I would use or endorse in any way.”
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AMERICA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM: THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Madison Rising
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You haven’t heard THIS ‘Star-Spangled Banner’
Band challenges nation to renew intimacy with patriotic theme
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Madison Rising Lyrics
Oh, say can you see
By the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming
And the rocket’s red glare,
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave
Because we are the brave
Yes we are the brave
We’ll fight tyranny
In the name of the free
We are the U.S. of A
For those unaware
That flag is still there
It’s our future to save
This land of the brave
The U.S. of A
Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land, land of the free and the home of the brave
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