By Parker Leavitt | The Republic | azcentral.com
Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs and two other Republican lawmakers defended their support for Senate Bill 1062 during an outreach breakfast Friday in Gilbert, blaming opponents for a national outcry while painting the bill as merely a “technical correction.”
Pushed for by the socially conservative Center for Arizona Policy, SB 1062 sought to expand the rights of people to refuse services based on a “sincerely held” religious belief.
After a week of intense national scrutiny and criticism toward Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed the bill on Feb. 26, saying the law could divide the state “in ways we cannot even imagine.”
