Virginia House Bill 1414 was a proposed legislation introduced into the Virginia General Assembly on January 14, 2015, by Bob Marshall. The bill didn't pass. The bill would have enabled refusal of service to persons based on "same-sex "marriage" or homosexual behavior" by any public or private business in some way licensed by the state. Critics suggest that the law, if enacted, could be used by hospitals to turn away patients, restaurants to refuse to serve and to remove students from school and compared it to Jim Crow laws. The Virginia Christian Alliance emphasized their position that the bill is critical to clergy and that they "fear for their job" should the bill fail. Similar bills have been introduced but not signed into law in other states. In 2014, Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, vetoed

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which would have given business owners the right to refuse service to homosexuals on religious grounds.

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was approved by that state's house of representatives but failed to make it out of the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee:

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text of Va HB1414
Virginia General Assembly Same-sex marriage in the United States 2015 in Virginia Discrimination against LGBT people in the United States LGBT in Virginia

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