Roadblock to AZ Partner Benefits
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Arizona is poised to grant domestic partner benefits to state and university employees—but guess who’s holding up the proposal? The Center for Arizona Policy, an organization that calls itself “one of the leading organizations in Arizona actively fighting in the legislature and media for conservative, traditional views on gambling, homosexuality and pornography,” filed objections with the state on Monday.

Unsurprisingly, the Center for Arizona Policy is part of a coalition of Family Policy Councils “selected and endorsed” by James Dobson himself. These councils exist in 36 states, and not just the ones you’d expect—everyone from Massachusetts to Minnesota is getting in on the fun.

This is one of many examples of organizing that made the Right so powerful in the past 20 years—just getting their names on Focus on the Family Action’s website is enough to galvanize conservative groups into doing Dobson’s bidding across the country. And though the Center for Arizona Policy conveniently copy/pasted Focus’s declaration that the groups have “no corporate or financial relationship” onto its own site, it’s unwise to assume that the grassroots capital of the Right is spent—groups like this are going to keep popping up and wielding influence well into the future.


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