You all on the left was just fine with the RFRA Bill when it was singed by President Clinton.
Now that several States are going through and passing bills in order to apply the RFRA law after the court ruling, it is now being lied about and totally distorted just to stir things up.
It had nothing to do with anti gay rights.
It's disgusting and despicable how the left has so distorted it.
What this AZ bill really was about;
RFRA was first a federal law, passed by Congress in 1993, in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Employment Division vs. Smith (1989). In that case, the Court did not protect the religious freedom of a member of the Native American Church who used peyote, a hallucinogenic, as part of a religious ceremony. The state did not violate Smith's religious freedom, the Court concluded in an opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, because the law making illegal the use of the hallucinogenic applied to people of all faiths, not just the Native American Church.
Many were deeply concerned about what that decision would mean for religious freedom in the United States. In practice the decision meant that if a government policy interferes with a person's right to freely practice their religion, that is acceptable as long as the policy was not specifically designed to do so.
A broad coalition of both conservatives and liberals came together, therefore, in support of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. This law would tell the courts that the state may only violate someone's religious freedom under certain conditions, and it is up to the government to show those conditions are met. Plus, having a law that is generally applicable (applies to all faiths and those with no faith), is not sufficient reason to deny someone religious freedom.
The law was passed by an overwhelming majority, a unanimous vote in the House and a 97 to three vote in the Senate, and signed by a Democratic president - Bill Clinton.
Later, though, the U.S. Supreme Court would rule, in Boerne vs. Flores (1996), that RFRA cannot be applied to state laws. States would have to pass their own RFRA if they wanted it to apply to their state and local laws, the Court said. So, many states did exactly that. Arizona was one of those states
Several other States are doing it also so that RFRA will apply to their States. The Left are going after them also.
The left are almost always against States Rights.
Explanation of the Bill
The left are all up in arms about it having applied to a business organization.
It just made it harder to sue.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/51leg/2r/adopted/1062yarbrough1042.pdf