The hypocrisy of Republicans opposing the Arizona anti-gay Law
The reason the Arizona law story had meaning was that such a law could actually have legal effect against GLBT persons.
And the reason such a law could have legal effect against gays, in particular, is that orientation is not a protected class in federal civil rights law.
And since it is not, it is not against the law in the USA to discriminate based on orientation.
It is against the law in some states, thanks to state law, but not federally.
Now then... of all these Republicans who said the Arizona law was bad, how many of them have ever supported federal civil rights for gays?
For instance, Romney was against the Arizona law. Odd... I don't recalling him running on adding orientation to federal civil rights laws.
We will see this issue kicked around state-by-state, over and over. It will be whack-a-mole. But it is all unnecessary. Congress merely needs to add orientation to a few existing laws, alongside race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, etc..
