How would you govern? Candidates weigh in on controversial bill

The Republic | azcentral.com Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:06 AM

Not since the Legislature passed tough immigration-enforcement legislation in 2010 has a bill stirred as much controversy as Senate Bill 1062, which would expand religious protections in state law in a way critics claim would be discriminatory against gays and lesbians.

As part of The Arizona Republic’s coverage of the 2014 elections, gubernatorial candidates are being asked their positions on key issues. Here's what they had to say about SB 1062.

Candidates Geoffrey Jacobs, Alice Lukasik, John Mealer, Andrew Thomas, Rick Murphy and Giuliano Selna did not respond to The Republic’s request. Ronald Cavanaugh could not be reached.

Editor's note 2/27/2014: Candidate James Draper did respond to the Republic's request for comment last week, but his response was inadvertanely left off this online package. It has been updated to reflect his statement as submitted on 2/22/2014, prior to Gov. Jan Brewer's vetoing of the bill. Brewer's statement was also updated on 2/27/2014 to reflect her action on the bill the day before.