Legal obligations to provide services for hate groups?

[Amelia]

From what I read after I posted a thread about penalties for not catering to gay weddings, I gather that it has been deemed legally acceptable to refuse services to a white supremacy group, because whites aren't a protected class ... but since blacks are a protected class, does that mean one must serve them no matter the context (as long as they aren't breaking laws, of course)?

Would a baker, party organizer, florist, etc. be subject to a discrimination suit if they refused to provide services for a black supremacy group?

 

[martybegan]

From what I read after I posted a thread about penalties for not catering to gay weddings, I gather that it has been deemed legally acceptable to refuse services to a white supremacy group, because whites aren't a protected class ... but since blacks are a protected class, does that mean one must serve them no matter the context (as long as they aren't breaking laws, of course)?

Would a baker, party organizer, florist, etc. be subject to a discrimination suit if they refused to provide services for a black supremacy group?

Probably. That is the downfall of public accomodation laws that target private buisinesses with no relation to government action.

 

[whitehall]

You bet your ass. The ACLU would be on it like flies on shit. Tear down a Christian monument? Go ahead, the ACLU will help you. Lock up a kid for wearing a NRA T. shirt or carrying a bible or making a finger gesture like a gun? The ACLU and the feds would be all over it. Every high profile conservative speaker has been the victim of assault at one time or other on a college campus but professors encourage students to express themselves with violence. Different strokes for different folks.