Posted on 07/02/2013 9:01:34 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
You’re exactly right. There is no constitutional right to be served by a business establishment. But there IS a right to the unimpeded practice of one’s religion.
There's a big leap between "should refuse" and "should be able to refuse". Thank you for saying it in the latter way.
nope those are private property owner rights, the same rights that allow you to control what goes on on your land and your house.
Then as a business owner, I should be able to have separate bathrooms for homosexuals, right?
“It is also to be understood that a customer has the opportunity to do business elsewhere since there are similar businesses available.”
This is the same argument used in regard to businesses that post “No guns allowed”. It’s a weak argument because while it may be true in the author’s neighborhood that doesn’t mean it is universally true.
“If we eliminate the possibility of the owner using tax dollars to start the business, it becomes a little less confusing, less contentious as well as less conflicting.”
We also need to recognize that if a business operates as a corporation, it is a creation of the state.
“...only serve bald dwarfs from Lithuania...”
What if the business was established to serve only bald dwarfs from Lithuania?
“A business should be able to refuse service to anybody for any reason, including skin color, race, gender, national origin, sex, religion, creed, viewpoint, handicap condition, mental condition.”
Should? Can you provide some reasoning as to why that “should” be the case? Can you provide something that would convince someone who believes otherwise to change their opinion?
Since the goal is to eliminate Christianity, none of this is a surprise.
if you’d want to remodel for that, i guess if you want to offer that. whether they use that one or not would be up to them as you may not know if they are gay or not.
i wouldn’t want to clean it if i were you because they often use bathrooms for different reasons than other people.
A petard is a small explosive charge, originially used in siege warfare. “Hoist by one’s own petard” means something like, “Blew himself up with his own Improvised Explosive Device.”
Freedom of association was destroyed with the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
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