The next big front in the gay rights debate is opponents’ push for “religious freedom laws”—laws that would allow individuals or businesses to turn away LGBT clients, as long as they cite religious objections to homosexuality. The proposals (which Eric Sasson, writing in The New Republic, has called "the new stand-your-ground laws") are a backlash to a string of recent court decisions, all of which sided with same-sex couples over proprietors in the wedding industry who had refused to serve them. And “religious rights” proponents have made some headway. The Arizona legislature just passed such a bill, and lawmakers are debating them in at least a half-dozen other states.
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