As of right now, Arizona Gov., Jan Brewer, is deciding whether or not to sign a bill that allows businesses to deny service to anyone they want, as long as they say it’s for religious reasons. The bill is called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and was proposed after the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled against a photography company that refused to shoot a civil-commitment ceremony, citing discrimination.

Obviously, the unnamed group most likely to be persecuted here is LGBT. This is a sad-sack attempt at being coy about homophobia, and it’s not the first of its kind to show up this year. Just a few weeks ago, Kansas’s senate killed a similar bill (that passed their House of Representatives, by the way) after an avalanche of complaints from around the country.

You think Arizona would’ve noticed and taken note.

You’ll often hear the first Amendment being cited during issues like this. Someone will cry out about freedom of religion, conveniently ignoring the first part of the Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Hear that, folks? Separation of church and state.

Just so we’re clear, this isn’t even an issue of religious freedom. It’s an issue of using religion to hide behind bigotry, and it’s disgusting as well as extremely harmful. Under this bill, restaurant owners could refuse service to anyone they think is gay. Doctors in private practices and hospitals would be able to refuse to treat a patient purely because of sexual orientation (it also allows doctors to refuse to prescribe contraception, but that’s an article for another time). Did that seem like a stretch? It’s not. Anti-gay views really have the potential to be that damaging.

I’ve said it before on the “Decaturian” website, and I’ll say it again here: if you oppose equal rights, you’re either ignorant or evil. There are some issues that are that cut-and-dry, and this is one of them. The people in favor of this bill are wrong. The lawmakers who wrote it are evil. Anyone who actively or passively tries to argue for discrimination is on the losing side of history. And make no mistake, this is a bill for discrimination.

*This law was vetoed on Feb. 27