HB 1264 reads:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, including a business owner or employee thereof, shall be required to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges to an individual if the request is related to the solemnization, celebration, or promotion of a marriage and providing such services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges would be a violation of the person’s conscience or religious faith. A person’s refusal to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges in accordance with this section shall not create any civil claim or cause of action or result in any state action to penalize or withhold benefits from such person.
This means that if a business owner objects to a marriage on moral grounds, that business owner can refuse to provide services to that couple. And to be clear, this bill does not specify that it would need to be a homosexual couple--- a business owner could refuse to serve a biracial or mixed faith couple also.
Adam Schroadter and Josh Davenport both supported this bill.
So much for "Live Free or Die."
Where does legislation like this come from anyway? Sounds like it's straight out of the ALEC playbook. You say the bill was introduced and voted on; it didn't pass, did it?
ReplyDeleteOnly 85 representatives voted in support of the bill. Unfortunately, two of them were representing Newmarket at the time.
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