Posted on 02/26/2016 6:55:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
"We reserve the right to refuse service" should have no exceptions for private businesses. If you can throw somebody out because you don't like him personally, you should also have the right to throw someone out on account of his/her race, religion, sex, sexuality, or the color shirt he's wearing. People have a constitutional right to be jerks if they so choose.
Anti-discrimination laws don't currently allow them to do that. But maybe the law should be changed to allow it so long as it was prominently posted. If a business doesn't want to do business with homosexuals - or blacks or Asians or Hispanics or Jews or the elderly or the handicapped or any other protected class - then let them discriminate so long as their position is clearly posted. Then let the market sort it out.
I realize that, I'm just saying that such laws are unconstitutional in that they violate your right to freedom of association.
The same is true of (allegedly) discriminatory hiring. In most cases, that’s a problem the market will solve: an IT firm that discriminates against Asians will probably be at a disadvantage with respect to one that does not, a basketball or football team that refuses to hire blacks won’t do as well as one that does, etc. For most business owners, profits trump personal prejudice, so if any group is underrepresented (Asian football players, black SQL coders), it probably has to do more with interest and ability than with any systematic discrimination.
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