How One Right-Wing Christian Group Is Leading Arizona's March Toward Conservative Extremism

[Tx4obama]

How One Right-Wing Christian Group Is Leading Arizona's March Toward Conservative Extremism

On Thursday, a day after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) vetoed the state's highly-criticized SB 1062 -- a measure that would have allowed business owners to reject services to any individual on religious grounds, which was widely seen as discriminatory toward the LGBT community -- the state House passed another controversial measure: the "Women's Health Protection Act," or HB 2884.

Both HB 2884, a bill seeking to permit surprise inspections of abortion clinics without a warrant, and the failed SB 1062 are backed and co-drafted by the Center for Arizona Policy, a conservative Christian advocacy organization. A similar piece of "religious freedom" legislation pushed by CAP in 2011 was also vetoed by Brewer.

Since the group's 1995 establishment, 123 CAP-supported measures have been signed into law, including the state's 2008 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. That effort was spearheaded by the group's president, Cathi Herrod. Twenty-nine bills backed by CAP have been vetoed by various Arizona governors after being passed by the state legislature.

Despite the national outcry and bipartisan opposition to the group's most recent legislative affront on LGBT rights, a number of CAP's controversial bills continue to make their way through the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature.

Here are four of them: ...

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Here are 13 of the 123 CAP-supported bills that have been signed into Arizona law: ...

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/arizona-anti-gay-bill_n_4860817.html

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[seabeckind]

1. Turn over this rock and you'll find them everywhere

Do a little googling and you'll find a "policy" institute in every state and each one will have a similar mission, similar backing, etc.

If I were a conspiracist I'd almost think it was a shadow movement.

And to think that my tax dollars support this movement.

BTW, what ever happened to that thing a couple months ago about changing the criteria for non-profits? You know, the "EXCLUSIVELY"?

(added edit) Answering my own question, diverted/distracted by the IRS group targetting controversy. Hmm, note to self...get more tinfoil.

And next I'll read the article about voucher schools and what a large percentage of them use for their textbooks. There's no chance that Indiana's fight aganst common core is related to their big push for vouchers, is there?

http://www.alternet.org/education/7-most-absurd-things-americas-kids-are-learning-thanks-conservative-gutting-public?page=0%2C1&paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark