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.

BUT WHAT ARE YOU REALLY SAYING HERE?

There are polite ways to phrase questions and requests.

"Please excuse me" sounds much better than "Get outta my way."

"Could you pass me the salt" is nicer than "Whadda ya doing, hogging all the seasonings?!"

But then you get into questions with possibly a dual meaning.

Last night my husband asked me if the dishwasher had clean or dirty dishes in it.

Perfectly reasonable request, but it MEANT something different,

It MEANT "So will you unload it so I don't have to."

A innocent inquiry - "Did you get my laundry done?"

Meaning "Did you get my laundry done and if not, WHY?"

Or am I simply being too sensitive?

 

TIS THE SEASON TO BE CRAZY

It's Christmas Eve Eve, right?

And everybody is in a rush - they are going someplace to visit family or in-laws, they've bought into the American media fantasy of having the perfect meal, with the perfect presents while wearing the perfect clothing and trimming the perfect tree.

They need to get to the mall - to the grocery store - to the pharmacy - someplace.

And it is absolutely CRITICAL that they get there FASTER than you do.

So if that entails that you go through a red light, when it's only just turned red - it's actually sort of a light orange, really - well, yeah, that's okay, because you have to get there right now.

And it absolutely means that YOU get that parking space before I do. It doesn't matter if it's an elderly lady trying to pull in there - you may be a young man with an elevated red pick-up with NASCAR stickers all down the sides, but damn it, he has to get into that mall before you do.

Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Yes, 'tis the season for sharing, giving, and caring -- as long as it doesn't have to be on the roadway.