Spent a few days in Arizona in the past week, and what little news I saw was dominated (locally and nationally) by the furor over the state's proposed legislation allowing businesses to refuse service to gays based on religious beliefs. A few hours before I wrote this, the Republican governor vetoed the bill, after waiting longer than she should have.
While I was in Arizona, I played golf with several small business owners, and I asked what they thought about this bill. Almost unbelievably, most didn't know to what I was even referring - this goes to show you how much staying up on current political events really matters to a small business-owner's success. But this also underscored the dumbness of it all.
Here again, we have a solution in search of a problem. No one is crying out for this legislation, other than your basic right-wing religious zealots, and we consistently see that aligning with them politically is a guaranteed way to lose elections.
It was a terrible idea for the Republicans in the Arizona legislature to advance this issue, they stood to gain nothing while alienating voters. It was anti-value.
To recap the list of stupid, in no particular order: Bigoted legislation, the Arizona Republican Party with the possible exception of the governor, certain small-business owners, solutions in search of problems.
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