Anybody else find it weird that there are so many people who oppose gay marriage but are fine with businesspeople being forced to participate in gay weddings?
That's probably because this issue is a little bit less cut-and-dry than "business people being forced to participate in gay weddings."
That was the issue that got the media's attention and led to accusations of the bill being anti-gay, and the threatened boycotts that followed.
Arizona doesn't even have legalized gay marriage. What are we protecting against, again?
You could just as easily say that the issue was that Arizona tried to pass a bill that would legalize virtually any kind of discrimination so long as it was based on religious grounds. You could also say that the bill was an OK from a governmental authority to start discriminating where no discriminating was happening before. That puts it a little closer to 72 - 18.
Sure, you could say that if you had no idea what the bill was you were talking about. But I guess that was the case for most people.
The bill was about having a free pass with discrimination, plain and simple. One of the top state senators behind it couldn't even give a single example of religious liberty being violated in business.
