[Gabz]

Ah, the old, tired, discredited notion that laws somehow rob people of their free will and make zombies out of them, as if the enacting of laws is not an act of free will choice, too.

Not at all.......actually these laws do rob the owners of the free will to target their market to a certain type of clientele.

[robertpaulsen]

"Not at all.......actually these laws do rob the owners of the free will to target their market to a certain type of clientele."

If it is a local law, the business has the opportunity to locate in the adjoining community and let them receive the tax revenue.

Federal laws have a different effect. They force the owners to accept business from clientele they don't want (ie, religious apartment owners forced to rent to an unmarried couple or a homosexual couple).