DiamondDave
Army Vet
That is your made-up definition of a public business.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes the distinction clear:
(e) The provisions of this title shall not apply to a private club or other establishment not in fact open to the public, except to the extent that the facilities of such establishment are made available to the customers or patrons of an establishment within the scope of subsection (b).
US Civil Rights Act - 1964 - Title 2
Except it is not a public business... sorry.. equal treatment by government under law for human citizens is one thing... forcing a privately owned business to give you services based on them being forced to accept your chosen actions is quite another
You do not have a civil right to force acceptance of behavior upon a business owner
Since a business cannot tell if a person is gay, and yet is willing to serve, and profit from, persons whose homosexual orientation is unknown,
that business has no valid cause to claim that it is so harmed by the requirement to serve gays that it must be allowed to refuse that service.
Exactly.. you cannot tell by looking... but it is the ACTION to be documented or whatever that is the issue..
If I am a Jew, you do not get to force me to take pictures of a skinhead event.. if I am a black, you don't get to force me to provide a decorated cake with a KKK symbol on it... and if I don't condone homosexual weddings, and you inform me that you want a cake for your gay wedding, you don't get to force me to decorate it...
Now... Have no idea of your beliefs and choices in action, and you do not have an idea of mine... if I show up and break an existing contract for services when there was no stipulation to limitations within the contract, then you have an issue with me, and rightfully so... if you openly state an action, or if you sign a contract wherein I as a business person have a clause that states I will not provide services for certain actions or events (notice not PEOPLE), and you try and trick me into it, you are the one who should be SOL... again, we all discriminate, and rightfully so, when it comes to the behaviors and ACTIONS of others
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