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So Mother Jones reported last week on a raft of anti-gay legislation that's slammed into the states.

Kansas, Idaho, now Arizona.

And it actually passed both the House and Senate in Arizona and is sitting on Governor Jan Brewer's desk.

They're calling these new anti-gay legislative efforts, these new bills, the turn away the gay law, because it would legalize anti-gay discrimination based on, you know what.

You could say it with me, sincerely held religious beliefs.

Ostensibly, the justification for these laws are that Christian, good Christian, God-fearing bakers shouldn't have to make a wedding cake for a couple of faggots.

Or wedding photographers who are God-fearing Christians shouldn't have to go take pictures of a lesbian's commitment ceremony because that is the devil's work.

These are special carve-outs being proposed for people of faith.

And they argue that this isn't like Jim Crow.

A lot of people comparing these laws to Jim Crow.

These aren't like Jim Crow at all because discrimination based on sexual orientation is tied to a deeply held religious belief, whereas discrimination based on race, being opposed to interracial marriage, being opposed to the quality between the races.

That's just racism.

And there's no religious justification for that.

Of course, there is.

And there was.

And the Bible is very radically pro-slavery.

And segregationists won court cases pointing to the Bible to justify anti-integration efforts.

There were lots of people who could cite and did cite their sincerely held religious beliefs as justification for their racism

and for racist discrimination.

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