AZ SENATE BILL 1062

Arizona doesn't get into the news that much. Except when it's minus 5 degrees in the rest of the country and it's 75 here.

And when certain bills get introduced. Such as Arizona State Senate Bill 1062.

The "Pro" people say it's to allow religious people to exercise their beliefs. The "Con" people say it's to allow discrimination.

I see it another way, which I don't think the pro people have even considered.

It's one way to allow religious people to be legally discriminated against.

The Con people cry that it will allow wedding cake bakers to deny services to gay couples who want a wedding cake

The Pro people insist that it allows the bakers to express their displeasure about a gay wedding based on their religious beliefs.

I say it's going cause a WHOLE lot of employment problems for the baker.

Would you hire some nice Christian who could just mess up the large order you got for a rainbow cake?

If you're a Starbucks manager, would you hire a Mormon who might suddenly decide in the midst of the morning rush to stop selling cappuccinos because of her religious views? 

How about the Muslim that could possibly view all customers as infidels?

So then we'd have to have another law that you couldn't refuse to hire someone because of their legal right to refuse service to someone based on their religious beliefs.

Does this seem as silly to you are it does to me?

Sure, if you don't want to bake gay wedding cakes, keep the rainbow off your ads.

If you are LDS and don't want to serve coffee, find another job outside of food service.

If you can't deal with infidels, don't do business with infidels.

But if you are a normal, reasonable human being, realize that you can deal in business with people of different moral, religious and social values without sacrificing your own.

It's called politeness.