Cathi Herrod, the head of the very powerful theonomy-lobbying group Center for Arizona Policy, doesn’t do a ton of press, usually preferring to work behind the scenes to advance her organization’s agenda in the legislature, but she did turn up on CNN today to discuss SB 1062. For some reason, CNN hasn’t uploaded the entire video up online as of yet, but Media Matters is featuring this delightful selection in which Herrod won’t answer if the law would allow restaurants to exclude customers based on their sexual orientation (or if she thinks that would be acceptable), instead asking viewers to read the bill.
For what it’s worth, Ms. Herrod, I’m a Christian, I don’t think my rights to practice my faith have been violated in this country ever and the bill bothers me very much. I don’t have “hostility” towards religious freedom, I just hate when a group of people start telling me what I believe and how my faith should be practiced.
Meanwhile, Jan Brewer, at a conference for governors in Washington, DC, is still trying to get her “hands around” the bill (whatever that means), but she does acknowledge that it’s “controversial” at least, so there’s that:
Well, it’s a very controversial piece of legislation. We know that. We know that it’s failed in a lot of states across the country. … I’ve been reading about it on the Internet and I will make my decision some time before … by next Friday … if I do decide to sign it. But it’s very controversial, so I’ve got to get my hands around it.
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2014.
When the City of Tucson offered joint library cards and swimming pool memberships to same sex couples, Cathi Herrod tried to stop that. She just hates gay people with an unrelenting passion.
I thought Herrod killed the baby Jesus? Oh, sorry, wrong Herrod.
That lady is a less likable version of Dolores Umbridge.
Hatred cloaked by religion, is still hatred. The God I know would not agree with this bill. Sorry, Cathi.
What is her faith community/belief? An organized church or some fundamentalist pied-piper outfit?
” I’ve got to get my hands around it.”
Definition………she needs somebody to read it to her and explain all the big words.
Cathi Herrod is an evil hate-mongering witch! She claims to be religious and then promotes hatred! What a bigot!
Certainly what Cathi Herrod does is wrong. She advocates the overthrow of the United States, and its Constitution, and wishes to supplant it with her own view of fundamentalistic Protestant religion. Her hatred of anyone not white, and heterosexual, and her belief that only she and her friends should share in this vast new “Christian country” indicate she is a force trying to tear down the fabric of the entire country. That the Arizona legislature always goes along with her poison pen is a mockery of the constitution. It is not representative, because the “silent majority” of Arizonans do not support this radical viewpoint.