Thomas Jefferson said “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my legs.” The same can be said for how other people live their lives when it has no affect on you. Of course if you live in Arizona and the new discrimination law passes, you may be picking your own pocket.
The Arizona legislature just passed a law stating a business can refuse service to gay and lesbian customers as long as they assert their religious beliefs. That opens a really wide door of discrimination. Next a business may want to refuse service to a racially-mixed couple. Or how a Muslim business refusing service to a female because she doesn’t cover her face or she drives a car?
Why is Arizona always on the front lines of discrimination? A couple of years ago they passed a law stating cops can stop someone and ask for identification just because they’re brown. I remember how much fun it was covering that issue.
CLAYTOONZ 
I saw this in the 2/25/14 L.A. Times. Very nicely done. Simple, yet powerful. Political cartooning at its finest.
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Thank you. I’m glad to be back in The L.A. Times. Thanks for letting me know.
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I have trouble understanding your point on this one. You seem to be relating the discrimination that would have been seen under the vetoed Arizona legislation allowing businesses to refuse service based on religious beliefs to discrimination that occurred in the deep south with businesses, primarily accommodations, food and transportation due to the pigmentation of one’s skin up until the civil rights act of 1964. To my knowledge that never happened in Arizona and I doubt, considering the number of mixed race marriages today, that any business would ever try to discriminate against a mixed race couple. I don’t know of any religion that indicates that mixed race couples should not marry, though I’m sure there are people who still believe that for one reason or another other than religion. Adding to my confusion about your cartoon is that the person represented as the shop owner appears to be of Hispanic descent. This was probably not your best effort at communication through cartooning.
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