#PRWin: Rocco's Pizzeria V. Arizona's Bigoted Senate
As quiet as they would have liked it to be kept, the Arizona state Senate passed S.B. 1062, which reads the following:
“Exercise of religion” means the PRACTICE OR OBSERVANCE OF RELIGION, INCLUDING THE ability to act or refusal to act in a manner substantially motivated by a religious belief whether or not the exercise is compulsory or central to a larger system of religious belief.
Arizona Democrats, who argue the legislation is a way to legalize discrimination against LGBT individuals, sponsored eight amendments in an attempt to thwart the legislation — all of which were rejected by Senate Republicans.
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