Someone will inevitably call me a racist for saying this but a privately owned business should have every right to serve anyone for any reason they damn well please. The market will decide whether a racist or otherwise bigoted businessman survives.
In this case the restaurant isn’t even doing that. This is based on an opinion held by the owner. I have a gay fiend from childhood who posted last night on facebook that he goes to Chick-fil-A at least once a week and intends to continue.
I’m in complete agreement with you. If a business chooses to refuse service to a would-be customer because the customer is black, white, queer, dressed funny, or a Presbyterian, it should have every right to do so. Free association extends to commerce as well as individuals. If the business excludes a large enough portion of its potential base, it cannot survive. Voila! The market works.
The death of free association came with the Supreme Court’s specious ruling in Brown vs. Board, which denied “public accommodations” the right to discriminate on the basis of race. Inevitably, that right was narrowed to force inclusion of other “protected” groups, a distinction to which fags are currently (and successfully) aspiring.
But Chick-Fil-A does not refuse service to fags. This whole snit is because the chain’s owner had the gall to state a pro-family value.