Re: Arizona Buisnesses May Be Able to Ban LBGT Customers
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 8:43 pm
I don't understand why any business of any kind should be required to grant service to anyone. If you refuse to serve someone, then that's your business. Do with it what you will. The markets will sort it out. The flip side is that people have a right not to shop at your establishment if they don't like our values.
And yes, I would extend that to people who want to ban me from their establishments for whatever reason they want as well. If someone doesn't want to serve me because I'm white or Christian or straight or blue-eyed or because they don't like 32 year old, then I shouldn't have the right to insist that they do so.
*shrug*
With that said, I don't think the ban is a good political idea. It obfuscates the real concerns relating to religious liberties lying behind the gay marriage debate. It's hard to see much upside to this idea at all.
And yes, I would extend that to people who want to ban me from their establishments for whatever reason they want as well. If someone doesn't want to serve me because I'm white or Christian or straight or blue-eyed or because they don't like 32 year old, then I shouldn't have the right to insist that they do so.
*shrug*
With that said, I don't think the ban is a good political idea. It obfuscates the real concerns relating to religious liberties lying behind the gay marriage debate. It's hard to see much upside to this idea at all.