martybegan
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- Apr 5, 2010
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Not when you offer services to the public.Your premise is false. Where do you think you can engage in public business services and can willfully discriminate because you disagree with someone's life style?Where do you get the idea that business serving the public should be able to discriminate against those they don't like or agree with?PA laws don't have to be scrapped, they serve a useful purpose when it comes to systemic or local government mandated discrimination, not one and done point cases of refusal of service. They just have to be tailored so they aren't used to punish thought and speech.
Where do YOU get the idea that the second you try to sell something you give up all of your rights, depending on who's feelings are hurt?
As long as the discrimination is not systemic, the right of a person to provide services that meets their moral code outweighs any "right" to not have your feelings hurt.
"public accommodation" is not the same as offering services to the public. Contracted services like providing a cake for a wedding is not a public accommodation. Your side has stretched the definition to include any business, and more importantly, to make it so the actual purpose, fighting systemic discrimination, is no longer the main goal.
The main goal is to punish those who disagree with you.