This is not going to be a popular viewpoint, but the Bill of Rights states that we shall have freedom of association. No matter how distasteful it is to most folks, a private business should not be forced to hire anyone or serve any person it chooses not to hire or serve.
The great free market economists agree on this one. Discrimination always comes at a cost, and most businesses would do business with anyone whose money is green. It is government that destroys equality of opportunity. It was the Nazi government that forced people to stop engaging in commerce with Jews, much as our government is trying to stop people doing business with Chick Fil A.
If this hateful Muslim chooses to discriminate against Jews, then the market will take care of that. His hotel will suffer for it. Allowing government to force association when it comes to private enterprises is a slippery slope.
Let’s test your theory. Put a “NO COLOREDS” sign in the window of your business and tell us how it turns out.
They may not be able to use discrimination to sue, but the inconvenience, and cost of any loss or damage to the items they brought with them. The fact that they did not have an opportunity to relocate at such a short notice.
if the hotel has signs saying no Jews allowed, it never would have happened. They need to post these signs....and see what that does for their business.
I believe the 14th Amendment has been used to supersede the freedom of association clause.
Not to suggest that if he threw out blacks, I'd oppose prosecution, but that's not the case. This is a civil dispute, apparently nothing about throwing Jews out of the hotel violates civil rights legislation.
BTW, if this were a private business, they could bar Jews and anyone else. When you open your doors to the general public, you've lost that defence of privacy.