Quantum Windbag
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The Federal Government has no Constitutional right to tell anyone who they must do business with. I believe in the old sign I used to see at most businesses, "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone".
The U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to be arbitrator of the Constitution, but it is not. What it is is another political tool. The Republican appointees make rulings according to the Constitution, the Democrat appointees make rulings in accordance with their ideology.
#1 - States have their own version of Public Accommodation laws. Elaine Photography (New Mexico) and Sweetcakes by Melissa (Oregon) were cases of national attention - however those cases were under State Law, not Federal Law, and an excercise of STATE regulation of commerce. An interesting note, which highlights that Public Accommodation laws are a separate issue from Same Sex Civil Marriage is that there is no Civil Marriage in either of those states.
#2 - You are incorrect about who approved it based on political affiliation. The landmark Federal case was Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States and the court voted unanimously (9-0) or (8-1), I don't remember which, that Federal Public Accommodation laws are constitution under the powers to regulate commerce. It's also interesting to note that Justice Scalia was the author of Employment Division v. Smith, a landmark case which established that it is Constitutional for government to require general applicability of a law even if it does not comport with an individuals personal religious beliefs.
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It is even more interesting to not that Smith resulted in a backlash against the Supreme Court that was strong enough, and bipartisan enough, that Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993, which passed the House on a voice vote, and got 97 Yays in the Senate.
But, please, keep pretending you come from where the law is even while lying about what the Arizona version of the RFRA will do.