I have warned you previously that a vote for “Cathi’s Clown” Doug Ducey means electing Cathi Herrod and her Christian Taliban Center for Arizona Policy the “shadow governor” of Arizona.
As a key adviser to Dicey Ducey, Cathi Herrod will be writing her anti-abortion, anti-contraception, God hates gays, school privatization/voucher bills, and a new SB 1062 Religious Bigotry bill from an adjoining office to the governor. That should terrify any right-minded voter.
Linda Valdez at the Arizona Republic sounds the alarm. Look for return of SB 1062 if Doug Ducey wins:
On Election Day, Tempe took one step toward expanding LGBT rights and Arizona potentially took a giant leap back by nominating Doug Ducey as GOP candidate for governor.
If Ducey becomes governor, institutional discrimination could become law when Cathi Herrod returns with “SB 1062, The Sequel.”
Herrod of the Center for Arizona Policy is a key Ducey supporter, who lists his commitment to “traditional marriage” as one of the reasons.
She was a top backer of SB 1062, which would have allowed a business to deny service based on religious beliefs. It was a direct assault on the LGBT community, and the outcry against it led to Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto.
Herrod called the veto “a sad day for Arizonans who cherish and understand religious liberty.”
She said it was vindication for SB 1062 when the U.S. Supreme Court subsequently ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby. The court said employers could not be mandated to provide contraception in violation of their religious views.
You can bet SB 1062 will be back in the Arizona Legislature next session.
If Ducey is governor, will he cross a key supporter and veto it?
The return of SB 1062 may be just the start.
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As for Tempe: It voted to change its charter, becoming the first Arizona city to protect its employees from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. One step forward that could be negated at the state level.
If voters are serious about improving Arizona’s image from being the stock comedy material of late night comedians, then the place to start is by not voting for right-wingers like Dicey Ducey, and the crazies that they bring along with them.
Does the Arizona Business community really want to revisit the furor over SB 1062 from earlier this year? Your support for Dicey Ducey is badly misplaced and shortsighted.
By the way, the last time that the leader of Center for Arizona Policy ran for governor in 2006, Len Munsil was crushed by Janet Napolitano 62.6% to 35.4%. Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!
h/t Phoenix New Times graphic
@steve. You sound like Putin. No matter what the definitive evidence is, his reality is completely different. The reality is the so-called Arizona center believes that their form of religion should be imposed in the entire State by enforceable legislative action. Women are not capable of making their own reproductive decisions so we must impose ours. Gays should be shunned and criminalized. Our form of marriage must be imposed. Ironically their form of religious indoctrination schools must be supported by public tax dollars. All these are the very definition of the Taliban theocrats.
No, that is NOT the very definition of the Taliban. The very definition of the Taliban is rule by the Sharia, or religious law, through the use of torture, disfurement and execution. They do not teach using using tax dollars because thay have no real schools. They have mullahs teaching the Koran to students (or Taliban, since that is the meaning of the word). You need to do a little homework.
From my perspective, Steve, Ms. Herrod is very Taliban-like.
Desire to establish dominion over other women’s reproductive decisions. Check.
A religious zealot who wants to impose her beliefs on everybody. Check.
Desire for children to grow up without fact-based sex education. Check . Intolerance and actual animosity toward people who are LBGT. Check.
A belief that her religion and beliefs are the only way. Check.
Bully legislators to support her bills. Check.
Un-elected. Check
Too much influence for too long.
You take the term far too lightly. She may be guilty of everything you say, but the real taliban have gone so much farther in their zeal that a true comparison is impossible. For example: torturing and disfiguring young girls found to be receiving an education; torturing and killing women found to be wearing make-up; torturing and killing women found outside the house without a male family member accompanying them; executing entire families for failing to assemble at Friday prayer services to witness the weekly executions; mass executions of women accused of adultery; and a hundred other reasons to torture, disfigure and execute people for the mose trivial of reasons. When you use the word “Taliban” in such a manner you trivialize the suffering and sacrifice of those who suffer under the true Taliban simply to express your disdain for someone whose politics you don’t like.
You are fearmongering with this article. You have no definitive proof that anything you are saying is true; it is sheer speculation based on your imaginative worst case scenario. Citing Linda Valdez from the Republic hardly bolsters your position. And you shouldn’t use the word “Taliban” so lightly. I defy you to find ANY organization in the United States that has committed the attrocities of the Taliban. It is very much like the idiots who go around using the word “Nazi” so lightly. It is hard to take anyone seriously who spouts such rubbish.
Then leave, troll. You have other venues in which to troll.
But then who would keep you honest? Who would provide the counter-point? Who would provice some levity?
It’s time to stop the Arizona Center for the Taliban.
Cathi Herrod already refers to herself as the “31st Senator.” She hopes to move up to “shadow governor.”
She can say whatever she wants, it doesn’t mean it’s true.