Alfalfa
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If somebody is so bigoted they won't serve somebody at a lunch counter or sell them a dozen doughnuts, that person isn't going to get much business from anybody other than other bigots and there won't be enough of them to make the business really profitable.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
The war against slavery, segregation, and discrimination has been fought and won though, and it is high time we stop fighting it.
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Those businesses who cheerfully and competently serve the public they have will thrive. Those who don't won't.
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"Who I choose to do business with is my business. And I will choose the friendly shop owner who serves me and my friends with a smile over the shop that would exclude some of my friends."
The issue and the law has nothing to do with a customers right to choose who they buy from for any reason. It's about a private business with a business license serving the general public and who they can or cannot refuse service or products.
But nobody should ever be forced or expected to go to a location he or she does not feel comfortable or does not wish to go whether it is because he or she fears for personal safety or because it includes an activity or emphasis that the person simply cannot condone or for any other reason.
A business refusing service or products due to verifiable safety reasons is legal so you're linking that with reasons which are patently against anti-discrimination laws as if they were the same is intellectually dishonest. But I bet it works in church...
To destroy somebody purely because they hold a belief or conviction you do not share is unAmerican and bigoted and evil. And none of us should ever condone that.
Again, for about the tenth time, this issue isn't about someone holding a belief or conviction, it's about putting that belief or conviction into physical action using their business that serves the general public. If you are a racist you can express those racists beliefs, you can even go to rally's supporting those racists beliefs, both are covered under the 1st Amend. But if you go to the house of a black family and burn a cross on their lawn, that will breaking the law and you will most likely go to jail.
It boggles my mind how proponents of physical acts of hate and discrimination against a protected class are constantly misrepresented as violations of the 1st amend. Hold all the bigoted, racist, hateful thoughts you want, discuss them among your peers, but put them into action and you will go to jail or get sued.
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