>>If three dudes from the KKK wanted a drink at a local PUB, would anyone be upset if they’d were denied? Of course not.
It’s a very slippery slope.
What if they are RUMORED to belong to the KKK? Is that sufficient?
To the Left, anyone in the TEA Party was in a proxy front for the KKK.
Now lets flip this argument and say that the three customers are suspected of belonging to the Communist Party. Can they be refused service, employment, etc?
Are we going to be burdened with protests and lectures about the evils of blacklisting people, especially merely on the suspicion of belonging to a subversive hate group in league with foreign agents to undermine the USA?
Not sure of your point. I think any business should have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. If you refuse service to regular folks, then word will get out and you will likely lose business. In other words, there may (or may not) be a monetary price to pay for refusing service tp certain groups of people....society may judge you harshly (as was the case with Red Hen), but there should not be a legal price. We live in a free country.
Some folks were against the civil rights act in 1960’s. Why? Well, most sane people were happy that the civil rights act prevented the government from discriminating based on race, color, sex...etc. In other words it ended government institutionalized discrimination which was a great thing. But, the part some folks didn’t like was that it compelled privately held businesses to not discriminate as well.
Now, I am not in favor of discrimination of any kind, but if a lesbian woman wants to open up a restaurant to serve exclusively lesbian couples, shouldn’t she have that right? According to the Civil right act, she cannot only allow lesbian women to dine at her restaurant. The Civil Rights act also made Men’s Clubs, Women’s clubs, Black Club’s all illegal because they are all discriminatory. I personally feel that busness should be allowed to say “We only want to do business with men” or “We only want to do business with women.” What’s the big deal and who’s business is it to say otherwise? Again, there may be a monetary cost to such business practices, but there should not be a legal c