The trend of gay people suing small businesses who refuse to cater to their lifestyle. Like the case in Colorado where a wedding cake shop would not make a cake featuring two grooms. They got sued.
The wedding cake shop shouldn't have to make such a cake if they don't want to.
Courts are only reacting to these new laws springing up they are not going out of there way to force anything, these types of laws are just more republican grandstanding, what public good is this serving and what percentage of religious people really want this.
You are misinformed.
This law was proposed to preempt gay people from having a cause of action against a small business for refusing to cater to them.... thus saving the businesses from having to invest in attorneys fees to defend themselves for acting according to their consciences.
This is the epitome of catering to the loons.
It is no such thing, gay people suing small businesses like that could be a very real problem going forward. You could litigate them out of business if you get an overzealous fascist plaintiff attorney trying to make a name for himself, even if a court were to decide that the small business does not have the obligation to specifically cater to them.
The court's job is to interpret the law. The law in Arizona may now say "there is no recognizable lawsuit against a small business for discrimination on the basis of homosexuality due to a small business not catering to their specific lifestyle."
Since homosexuality isn't a federally protected class, Arizona will have done the right thing by passing this law.
Some bigots might use it as a shield.... other honest religious people, however, need it to protect their consciences.
And since last I checked this was a free country, I guess gay people will have to find a non-religious bakery to get their cakes from. Oh, the horror.