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So the answer to my questions is yes, you folks believe it's OK for businesses to discriminate at will.
Got it.
Glad I could make it that clear. Yes, any private citizen should be able to discriminate at will, so sayeth freedom of assembly, association, and virtually all natural individual rights.
I seem to recall signs that read "No shirt, no shoes, no service." Clearly discrimination, yet very much still in business.
I have been a sole-proprietor for 25 years and discriminate regularly. There are some people with whom I will not do business, period. I do not give a damn if they are in a "protected class" or not. By the way, all those "protected classes" violate the Equal Protection clause of the US Constitution.
Discrimination? Bwahahahahaha. Since when are health regulations "discrimination?"
ANd why does it not surprise me that you discriminate freely.
Glad I could make it that clear. Yes, any private citizen should be able to discriminate at will, so sayeth freedom of assembly, association, and virtually all natural individual rights.
Glad I could make it that clear. Yes, any private citizen should be able to discriminate at will, so sayeth freedom of assembly, association, and virtually all natural individual rights.
BTW, the reason you're wrong is right in that statement. A business open to the public is not a private citizen.
Go ahead and refuse to let those icky gays or nasty blacks into your home. But to discriminate in business in unAmerican.
Bills filed in the South Dakota and Kansas legislatures seek to protect clergy, church officials and businesspeople who refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages or receptions because of their religious beliefs.
The bills would prevent clergy or businesses from being forced to perform or supply goods or services to anything related to same-sex marriages. It could allow a business to refuse to host a reception for a same-sex couple legally married in another state.
The bills also say clergy and businesses could not be sued or charged with crimes if they refused to take part in gay marriages.
Do citizens of this country have the freedom to practice their religion, or don't they?
But the laws are aimed at protecting persons. But even then private business can refuse service to anyone one. Its public your confusing with private.
IIRC, the state should not be allowed to interfere in deciding whether or not someone must be forced to provide a service for people.
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