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To: Jamestown1630
It seems to me that business owners refusing to serve anyone would set themselves up for lawsuits.

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."

85 posted on 01/10/2022 8:08:25 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I don’t think you’ve actually noticed the posts to which I responded.

I was responding to comments about service.

You can think whatever you like about the rights of people entering into ‘contracts’; but I believe that it’s wrong to refuse service to anyone just on the basis of what you may ASSUME about them.


87 posted on 01/10/2022 8:29:37 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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