Christopher Gorham, star of USA's Covert Affairs, was in Arizona this weekend and took time to speak out against the bill that would protect anti-gay discrimination in the state on religious grounds.

"The Arizona Legislature seems to be writing discrimination into the law books," Gorham, wearing a custom-made "I Won't Stand For Homophobia" t-shirt, told KTVK Channel 3. "It's a very pretty way of saying, 'We're going to protect religious people's rights to discriminate.'"

The actor, who's also appeared on Jake 2.o, Ugly Betty and Once Upon a Time, was on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, talking with students and handing out "I Won't Stand For..." shirts as part of USA's "Characters Unite" campaign supporting tolerance and equality.

Actor-activist George Takei has also spoken out against Senate Bill 1062. In a blogpost Friday, Takei called it a "Jim Crow law" akin to segregation in the 1950s: “Your taxi drivers can refuse to carry us. Your hotels can refuse to house us. And your restaurants can refuse to serve us," he wrote. "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."

Takei's husband, Brad Altman, is from Phoenix and the couple vacation there, but the Star Trek star threatened a boycott if Governor Brewer signs the the 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,” Takei wrote. “Because you don’t deserve our dollars. Not one red cent.”

Local companies—especially those that count on tourist dollars—are worried a law enshrining discrimination will scare away business. With Super Bowl XLIX slated to take place in Glendale next year, Arizona could face a Sochi-grade backlash that would take the game with it. (When Arizona refused to make Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a holiday, the NFL moved a scheduled Super Bowl to California, costing the state $500 million.)

"This bill is not looked upon as policy. It's really looked at as something that's forgetting certain classes of people," said Barry Broome, president of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. "We've worked so hard for the last six years to come out of this recession, and we see this bill as nothing more than pandering to extreme political groups. [It's] negative and counterproductive."

Senate Bill 1602 passed the Arizona House of Representatives on Thursday by a 33-27 vote, mostly along party lines. Brewer hasn't indicated if she will sign the measure or veto it, but a decision is expected next week.