An illustration of lynch law.

An illustration of lynch law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/opinion/collins-arizona-sort-of-helps-out.html?_r=0

"It's been quite a week in Arizona. First, the Legislature passed a bill that, in effect, gave businesses the right to discriminate against gay couples. The state's actual business community was horrified. Everybody from Mitt Romney to Newt Gingrich was ticked off."

Actually, in effect did nothing. That was the problem. The businesses in question had the right to not do business, anyway. This exposed the conservatives to the attack of the uninformed, of which there are apparently legion.

I am ashamed to have been caught reading the NYT, as its pages are devoted to the views of the uninformed. An informed person, would have taken issue with the second sentence:" First, the Legislature passed a bill that, in effect, gave businesses the right to discriminate against gay couples." I don't believe sexual orientation were in the text of the law. If the "In effect" clause is mentioned, the reasoning of why this is so needs to be mentioned.

I pledge to do better. To not accept fact free discussion from the NYT.



Dave Farnsworth