George Takei is boldly going where no man has gone before as he vows to take on the state of Arizona to fight against the “Turn Away the Gay” bill if it is signed into law.

George wrote an eloquent, passionate yet threatening letter stating just what he and many gay rights supporters will do if this law goes forward.

Read his fantastic letter below:

“Dear Arizona,

Congratulations. You are now the first state actually to pass a bill permitting businesses–even those open to the public–to refuse to provide service to LGBT people based on an individual’s “sincerely held religious belief.” This “turn away the gay” bill enshrines discrimination into the law. Your taxi drivers can refuse to carry us. Your hotels can refuse to house us. And your restaurants can refuse to serve us.

Kansas tried to pass a similar law, but had the good sense to not let it come up for a vote. The quashing came only after the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and other traditional conservative groups came out strongly against the bill.

But not you, Arizona. You’re willing to ostracize and marginalize LGBT people to score political points with the extreme right of the Republican Party. You say this bill protects “religious freedom,” but no one is fooled. When I was younger, people used “God’s Will” as a reason to keep the races separate, too. Make no mistake, this is the new segregation, yours is a Jim Crow law, and you are about to make yourself ground zero.

This bill also saddens me deeply. Brad and I have strong ties to Arizona. Brad was born in Phoenix, and we vacation in Show Low. We have close friends and relatives in the state and spend weeks there annually. We even attended the Fourth of July Parade in Show Low in 2012, looking like a pair of Arizona ranchers.

The law is breathtaking in its scope. It gives bigotry against us gays and lesbians a powerful and unprecedented weapon. But your mean-spirited representatives and senators know this. They also know that it is going to be struck down eventually by the courts. But they passed it anyway, just to make their hateful opinion of us crystal clear.

So let me make mine just as clear. If your Governor Jan Brewer signs this repugnant bill into law, make no mistake. We will not come. We will not spend. And we will urge everyone we know–from large corporations to small families on vacation–to boycott. Because you don’t deserve our dollars. Not one red cent.

And maybe you just never learn. In 1989, you voted down recognition of the Martin Luther King holiday, and as a result, conventions and tourists boycotted the state, and the NFL moved the Superbowl to Pasadena. That was a $500 million mistake.

So if our appeals to equality, fairness, and our basic right to live in a civil society without doors being slammed in our face for being who we are don’t move you, I’ll bet a big hit to your pocketbook and state coffers will.

George Takei”

Intense, but needed.

Also, that lady's face is absolutely terrifying in that photo....

Excellent letter , but he should have threatened to send in William Shatner .

Oh my...

Hope the bill gets signed by the governor and a lot of people will withdraw their business from that state so no one will ever try this again in the future

Takei is a God, they wont listen. Like he said in the letter, the ruling will get thrown out but it's still there to send a message of hate that you could even consider a vote on this sort of law.

I think her face can turn away a dragon

First, I'd like to say that I admit that this bill is rough/bold, in its wording. Welcome to the South. But I disagree with the connections to racial discrimination. This is all about...how someone has sex, right? No one HAS to tell anyone HOW they have sex. And no one has to be FORCED to like/dislike anyone. Now don't get me wrong: this bill will get turned around ASAP. I believe everyone should have equal rights. But my thing is that this doesn't HAVE to be a fight if you are homosexual. I mean, do g*ys where LBGT tags, or are required to tell receptionists if you're g*y? Keep your bedroom situations...in the bedroom. Simple patch?

two things about this bolded part

-1. Gay isn't a profanity nor should it ever need to be censored like this. Calling someone gay as a slur is where you will run into trouble for using the word but it's not because the word is bad it is because you are using it as an insult whereas it is a lifestyle.

-2. I'm pretty sure if I was working at a hotel and there was a couple booking into a honeymoon suite for a lovely weekend together I wouldn't need to ask if the 2 of them were gay if you get what I mean? This law would give that receptionist the perfect right to say to that couple to go be gay somewhere else, they could lie and claim they weren't going to share the bed... but really I know you are saying that people shouldn't have to be told about their sexual preference, but should they need to hide/lie about it?

Two males/females  walk into a motel and book a room , what assumption do you think is going through clerks mind , it's not just about what happens in the bedroom.