Nation-wide. we have been heavily involved with both federal and state rfra. we provide testimony across the nation to states that are considering rfra or considering amending rfra such as arizona is considering with senate bill so keeping them honest, there s nothing illegal or improper about advocating a position. everybody does that or providing legal guidance and advice or ghost writing services to lawmakers who might not have the expertise or experience in crafting legislation that will stand up to legal scrutiny. the question is why keep it a secret? that s the thing we can t quite understand. more now on fallout with my conversation last night with arizona senator al melvin. we got into religious basis behind the bill from former presidential candidate herman cain linked to it on his face book page. anderson cooper is either completely ignorant about this man s bill and about the teachings of jesus or he is just plain lying. what a disgraceful rant this is.
Still in favor of the bill? the governor had secret meetings today with the opponents and proponents. who are the outspoken proponents at this point now that the national spotlight is on arizona s legislative session? well, we have a very conservative legislature. there are definitely a number of republican lawmakers who are in support of it. senator al melvin, who is running for governor has been a proponent, both on social media and publicly. then there are a number of other lawmakers who supported the bill who continue to support it. what do you make of the legislator who said, we really didn t want it, we were just doing it for the caucus, it s almost as if they didn t read the bill. it s an admission that they made a mistake. is this how arizona politics runs? are there other issues where they simply don t read the legislation, they just do what advocacy groups tell them to do? i don t think it s necessarily an issue of not reading the bill. it s only two pages. it doesn t t
If they listened to the proceedings, they would have known. yes, this came up over and over again, and democratic senator after democratic senator came up and talked about that. i want to play one exchange we had last night with senator melvin. he s running for governor of the state of arizona. he says he cannot he knows of no example there is no discrimination in the state of arizona that he could come up with no specific example against religious groups, which is what this law is designed to protect. but he says there s no discrimination at all in the state. let s play that. with all due respect, sir, i don t know of anybody in arizona that would discriminate against a fellow human being. no christian or anybody that i know of. i know people in new york that diskrcriminatdiscriminate. discrimination doesn t exist
The question is why keep it a secret? that s the thing we can t quite understand. more now on fallout with my conversation last night with arizona senator al melvin. we got into religious basis behind the bill from former presidential candidate herman cain linked to it on his face book page. anderson cooper is either completely ignorant about this man s bill and about the teachings of jesus or he is just plain lying. what a disgraceful rant this is. as for calling it a rant, the entire interview is at ac360.com. you can go there, judge for yourself. as for the role in religion, there are a lot of different interpretations to the bible, many different perspectives. tonight we re joined by a leading cleric in the state of arizona, the most reverend roy mendez of the episcopal church in phoenix. as some people s faith are supporting this bill on religious grounds you re opposing the bill on religious grounds. why? well, we feel that this bill