His win is a direct result of the Supreme Court’s decision in a pivotal LGBTQ+ rights case.
Yeah, fair. That’s not the problem.
The problem comes when they think everyone else is required to do business with them.
“Rules for thee and not for me” and all that.
Would it work is the wedding couple is a MAGA fan?
It’s your business but if you want to do business in the US, federal and a lot of state laws say you can’t discriminate against customers based on factors such as race, religion, sex or national origin.
Isn’t religion one of a few “protected classes”? Can’t fire someone for race, sex, religion, disability, or age. I think you can’t deny service for those reasons either. Well not if the SCOTUS considered precedent and made good faith rulings at least.
“Should” is the operative word in my statement. I personally believe that you SHOULD have that right. I have always held the belief that I would much rather people discriminate against me openly so I can determine who I want to give my money to. If a company doesn’t want to do business with me, then I certainly don’t want to do business with them. Instead we have laws that prohibit discrimination, but face discrimination in practice. It’s like having a friend who smiles to your faces, but talks shit about you behind your back. No thanks, I’ll pass.
We’ve always had bigots. We always will. In the past, bigoted business behavior has resulted in opportunity for those who are willing to serve the clients the bigots won’t. Minorities understand this, and minority-friendly businesses prospered.
I can understand being upset that a business won’t accept you as a customer. What I don’t understand is why anyone would still insist on supporting that offensive business with their patronage. I’d be spreading the word about their practices, asking folks to boycott them.
Hey homophobic waiter, can you please serve this gay couple some food? Please don’t spit too much on it.
I think that discrimination, any discrimination, is bad and should over time be eradicated with education. But just trying to make the point here… You can’t let businesses discriminate, but you also can’t force individual persons to go against their beliefs -as retarded as those beliefs might be- and expect good results at the end. Did this couple really expect nice pictures?
In this case, the business IS the individual, and you can punish the business I guess, but this is something that in the practical real world ends with a homophobic waiter staying quiet and instead just spitting all over the food he’s about to serve to you.
I guess I’d rather know someone’s opinions before dealing with them.
If you are going to be an advocate / ally you are going to need more tools in your box that “hrr Christians bad lol”. There are a ton of rational positions to take her they don’t make the good guys look like morons.