Quote:First, a private business should have the "right to refuse service" to anyone.  After all, it's a privately owned and operated establishment.  They can make the rules, and if people don't like it, then they can refuse to do business with them.  If their refusal to do business with someone because of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or whatever causes them to lose business and eventually cause their business to fold, then it's their problem.  They should not be forced to do business with anyone under the law.
 

 

This is where we differ, I guess. I'm of the opinion that discrimination of any kind should be a deplorable act under law in the modern United States of America, public, private, whatever. It's a bad way to do business, it's a bad look on our beloved country, and, maybe most influentially, it sets a horrible example for our children. I would think we, as a country, should try to eliminate such a standard.

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