RE: You should be able to turn away anyone, for any reason.
And that reason includes the color of one’s skin or one’s ethnicity?
“And that reason includes the color of one’s skin or one’s ethnicity?”
Yes. Let the market place sort it out. The courts created the doctrine that the state has a compelling interest to end discrimination. The government yes, private individuals and corporations, no.
Absolutely. If we can't, then we are just slaves.
Very few business owners would turn someone away just because of skin or ethnicity. All money is green, and a black person’s money is as good as a white person’s or a brown person’s or whatever. On very rare occasions it may happen that some dumb, silly, or bigoted business owner turns down a customer for a frivolous reason. In that case, the customer is free to boycott that business, tell his friends to boycott, etc. If we are to be a free country, such cases are the price we must pay. The alternative is forcing businesses to serve people they don’t want to serve, and for me, that is more unacceptable.
Agreed. But, this principle you site does not mean that most people would agree with this decision. In fact, extremly few people would be supportive of someone who turned people away for skin color, but that person does have the right to do it.
The left, at this point, thinks the government has to step in. On the contrary, the marketplace of ideas will dictate whether someone who refuses service to minorities will survive. Obviously, such ideas would not survive.
This is why I’m ok with all male golf clubs, all female colleges, all Christian Schools...heck, all gay schools. People can do what they want. It’s Amercia
Yes, if a bar doesn’t want whites or non-bikers in it, or hippies, or men, or non-Italians, it should be able to do that.
That used to be common sense.
And that reason includes the color of one’s skin or one’s ethnicity?
In a free market, I would aggressively boycott any business that discriminated against folks on the basis of their race. Wouldn't you? I think such wrong-headed businesses would very likely be pressured or hounded out of business, peacefully and civilly.
That said, I would be okay with State laws that prohibited discrimination against fellow Americans based on something so removed from behavior as a person's race.
But homosexuality is a behavior, no more identifiable at a glance than someone's ethnicity. MANY people of 100 percent Chinese bloodlines, or 100 percent Japanese bloodlines, are ethnically AMERICAN, for example.
Cruz nails this when he defines it as a matter of religious freedom.