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Gay Rights Advocates Love AZ Governor Veto

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Gay Rights Advocates Praise Veto by AZ Governor

Arizona governor Jan Brewer made friends with gay and lesbian rights advocates today as she vetoed a bill that would protect business owners who decline service to gays and lesbians on the basis of those owners’ religious beliefs. http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20140226arizona-jan-brewer-1062-statement.html?nclick_check=1 

A vocal religious minority in Arizona strongly disagrees with the governor’s action, while even more vocal gay and lesbian rights advocates love it.  At http://HamiltonFinanceServices.com analysts perceive a subtext of frustration by the governor, whose real focus elsewhere, such as revamping the child welfare services of Arizona, has been distracted by the rancor surrounding the proposed legislation.

If you held strong feelings of opposition to gay and lesbian rights on the basis of your religion, would you like the bill that protects you when you refuse to serve gays or lesbians?  In other words, is the law worthy of some attention?  Or, on the other hand, is this all part of a right wing conspiracy to single out gays and lesbians?  What do you think?

 

 

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What’s Your Opinion on Same Sex Marriage?

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What’s your opinion on same sex marriage?  What arguments do you agree with concerning your opinion?  Is a nation the proper authority for deciding laws about this issue?  Is God solely the authority on whom people should depend for an opinion about same sex marriage?  Is your own conscience solely the authority on which individuals should depend…?  How should people reason about same sex marriage, or is reason inadequate on this and other topics?

If you pay attention to the Gallup polls in the US, you might believe that acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships (known before 2008 as homosexual relations, according to Gallup) has passed the half way point to 64% of Americans now in support.  http://www.gallup.com/poll/1651/gay-lesbian-rights.aspx

But if you look at the 2005 Texas support for a narrow definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman, you take away a very different perspective.  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/26/us-usa-gaymarriage-texas-idUSBREA1P1VE20140226 That definition passed overwhelmingly in Texas nine years ago, yet in 2014 court decisions appear to run contrary.

In both Russia and parts of Africa, the laws strongly punish same sex marriage.  In other places of the EU or North America, the opposite seems to be gaining acceptance, meaning laws protect same sex marriage in many places.  The public opinion worldwide is really a bit confusing, to me, hamilton.jerry.  I have an opinion, of course, and if you’ll show me yours….

So at http://HamiltonFinanceServices.com (HFS) they offer their own poll question, in their usual open-ended style:  What do you think about marriage between same sex people?  Do you favor it or oppose it, and by how much do you hold that opinion, strongly, mildly, or almost not at all?  Is your opinion based on religion, politics, ideology, or something else?  What else?

The polls and court decisions seem to make the answers to such a basic question more complex than seems necessary, according to HFS analysis.  What do you think?  I, hamilton.jerry, encourage you to comment with a rich mix of words, images, and sounds that truly reflect your views, and I hope to hear from a fair cross-section, not just a vocal group of like minded souls.