“It tells us the Republican Party is learning the difference between standing for principle and standing in the middle of a busy intersection,” said GOP strategist Alex Castellanos.
“In other words, we are learning that futile gestures that have only symbolic impact do the GOP cause more harm than good.”īut Katy Steinmertz at Time magazine says the controversy in Arizona could be just the beginning.
Kansas and six other states are mulling similar legislation. Part of a budding trend across the nation, with states pushing measures that proponents call religious freedom bills but opponents label state-sanctioned discrimination.