discriminatory or bigoted and that s simply not the case. and laws should be in place to protect people s conscience rights. ted cruz has been very critical of his fellow republicans basically ripping them for caving in and even changing the law. do you think the law was okay in its original form? or do you think that both mike pence and asa hutchinson were right? asa just signed the bill today. i think the change they made was simply to conform it to the federal law. i voted for that federal law. i believe that s a fine law. i believe the original arkansas law frankly was fine. but, you know, either is fine. here s the interesting thing about either of these laws. none of those laws are going to protect this pizzeria if they don t under the current way courts are deciding this, the courts are actually not allowing for conscious protections for people who do not want to be involved in a same-sex wedding ceremony. they re not providing that. these laws simply create an opportunity f
i believe that s a fine law. i believe the original arkansas law frankly was fine. but, you know, either is fine. here s the interesting thing about either of these laws. none of those laws are going to protect this pizzeria if they don t under the current way courts are deciding this, the courts are actually not allowing for conscious protections for people who do not want to be involved in a same-sex wedding ceremony. they re not providing that. these laws simply create an opportunity for this to be before the court. they don t require anything. but they allow the people who have a conscientious objection to bring this statute up if the government s trying to force them to do something. that s all this does. it does not allow discrimination. and i think what ted is legitimately complaining about is we ve seen a lot of republicans run for the hills when the left comes out and starts to hammer. and we need to stand for the truth. we need to stand for true tolerance. senator, thanks f