I was responding to the notion that people should refuse service to certain people. One poster said that he/she didn’t want to buy food from anyone who ‘hates’ him/her.
It seems to me that business owners refusing to serve anyone would set themselves up for lawsuits. Maybe they’d be lucky, and get the very occasional judge who would back them up, but they’d more likely destroy their businesses.
I also wonder about the morality of it. How does anyone know whether or not someone walking into their establishment ‘hates’ them, or is a bad citizen whom they wouldn’t want for a customer?
How do they know whether someone walking in is actually a member of a group that the business owner ASSUMES hates them?
It’s a sticky wicket, and regardless your assumption that it’s ‘not complicated’, it wouldn’t go that way in a court.
Not really.
You are confusing refusing service with refusing employment.
It is a common mistake.
When you offer a service to everyone such as sandwiches you do indeed have to offer them to everyone.
Anyone can come in and order a sandwich and, as long as you have a sandwich to sell, they are not disorderly or any of a number of other things you sell them the sandwich.
That falls under service.
What does not fall under service is what we call commissions. That is when some one contracts you to provide a special service exclusively for them.
To continue with the food analogy, they want you to make a platter of sandwiches spelling out "Happy Abortion!"
That is a commission and you, for the time in question, are working for that person.
You are not obliged to take that commission. You can refuse for any reason or even no reason. You are not required to take employment that you find distasteful.
That is what I am trying to explain.
Her business seems to be only commissions. There is a contract, they say what they want her to do and she is free to accept or decline.
Service and commissions are two very separate areas. That they are trying to co-mingle the two is dangerous. Must a book keeper do the taxes of a mob boss? Must a lawn service clean out a lot full of poison ivy? Will a vegan baker be forced to make a cake with eggs, lard and honey?
The foundation of all liberty is the ability to say, "No, I do not wish to do that no matter how much you pay me."