Apple, Other Businesses Pressure Arizona Governor to Veto Anti-Gay Bill

Big business isn’t clapping

In case you missed it, last week the Arizona state House and Senate passed Senate Bill 1062, a law ostensibly promoting religious freedom that would allow businesses to deny service to basically any type of customer (read: gay) as long as they could claim that said service “substantially burdens their exercise of religion”. Tricky language, that.

Certain smart businesses have used the law as an opportunity to win attention and now several far bigger names including Apple, Marriott and American Airlines have weighed in, urging Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto the bill.

Apple didn’t just sign a letter along with 82 other businesses—Brewer’s spokesperson confirmed that someone from the company actually called her this week, while Marriott and American Airlines independently wrote letters explaining why the legislation would hurt their bottom lines. John