[PATRIOT1876]

Any business should be able to refuse service to someone.

[SkyDancer]

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Liberals believe in freedom. Their freedom to use the government to force you to do their bidding.

[cripplecreek]

I believe its a constitutional infringement to force private business to serve people they would rather not short of life and death matters.

In fact I think exclusion is actually good for businesses of those who don’t discriminate. If there was a klan owned restaurant that didn’t serve blacks, I would love to own the restaurant across the street that serves anyone.

[cardinal4]

Justice Richard C. Bosson, writing in concurrence, said that the case “provokes reflection on what this nation is all about, its promise of fairness, liberty, equality of opportunity, and justice.” In addition, the case “teaches that at some point in our lives all of us must compromise, if only a little, to accommodate the contrasting values of others. A multicultural, pluralistic society, one of our nation’s strengths, demands no less.”

Am the only one who sees the irony in this?

[qaz123]

Activist judges are out of control. If there were ever an example of one of Levin’s amendments, this is clearly one of them.

[GeronL]

does the New Mexico Human Rights Act override the first amendment of the Constitution?

[MeganC]

So when are all the muslim taxi cab drivers going to be forced to provide services to people with service dogs, to people with alcohol, to single women, and to gay couples?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????

[cripplecreek]

The smoking ban in Michigan bars is another example of dictatorial government imposing laws when the free market could have created wealth out of the issue.

Rather than encouraging non smokers to open bars of their own, government dictates that all must exclude smokers.

[Pecos]

"The government can’t refuse to grant a drivers license or a fishing license or what have you to somebody just because they are Jewish or black or gay or female, etc. Everyone pays for the government and everyone is entitled to equal treatment and availability of services offered. Simple enough. But what of the private sector?"

And THAT is the entire issue. The Constitution is a contract between the people and the government which proposes to govern them. It is not a contract between individual citizens. Everyone has the right to access public streets, but no one has a right to occupy my property. The list goes on and on....

[cripplecreek]

“Much of the time, the United States seems to have embraced a confused and pernicious form of individualism. This approach endorses rights of private property and freedom of contract, and respects political liberty, but claims to distrust “government intervention” and insists that people must fend for themselves. This form of so-called individualism is incoherent, a tangle of confusions.”

-Cass Sunstein (Propaganda minister)

[kabumpo]

The reason why the idiot libertarian argument doesn’t work re segregated restaurants in the South is because it ignores reality: had another restaurant or diner opened nearby the segregated one, and served blacks and whites equally, it would have been bombed or set on fire. Plus whites wouldn’t have patronized it. It is a historical fact that the racist negro-phobia was what controlled the social order then - whites who ignored or flouted it put their own lives at risk.

The oppressed black thing has no application to the gays as bullies situation. The fact is that homosexuals are the dominant force in all the aesthetic businesses - fashion, design, decor, event planning, food service, etc. You’d have to look hard to find a non-homosexual vendor of these services - unless you are way deep in a rural area.

[Persevero]

Presumably then I should be forced to take pictures of orgy weddings, weddings between siblings, plural marriages, naked weddings, and Satanic weddings?

[5thGenTexan]

To the tweet's point: it's not about getting pictures at a wedding. It's about gay-facists targeting those who disagree with them to destroy them.

With that in mind, what do you think happens if the photographer 'does a bad job' as has been suggested? They get sued for intentionally doing a bad job (again, framed as a discrimination charge), review-bombed by the gay-facists and probably run out of business.

[Taxman]

This is just more of the “We’re Queer, We’re Here” in your face aggression we have seen homosexuals use to advance their agenda.

IMHO, EVERY business owner has the right to refuse service for any reason he/she chooses. A business license is not a dictator license!

[driftless2]

I think private owners have the right to refuse service to people for non-essential services. In short, nobody should be denied access to food, clothing, shelter, medical services, etc. But there are female only and male only clubs. For instance, I am denied access to certain female-oriented weight loss businesses. That is their right. There are other orgs. I can’t join because I’m not the right ethnicity. So what.

[Wiser now]

So why don’t the lesbians have to compromise and respect the views of Christians? Hmmmmm?
Shouldn’t their rights stop where mine begin? The homosexual lobby is using the courts to persecute Christians.

[mosaicwolf]

..."at some point in our lives all of us must compromise..."

Really? Well, I don't have to compromise with anyone that I don't want to. How do you like me so far?

[RobinOfKingston]

If there is no right to refuse service, how can a drunk be cut off in a bar??

[austinaero]

Same sex marriage isn’t yet legal in NM,,it’s still being discussed in the courts,,,and yet the NM Supreme Court compels a business to photograph and illegal ceremony because the participants were gay.

I hope SCOTUS overturns this. I have my doubts but still hope for the right ruling.