It is really very sad to have people like you right here on this great forum, who stupidly believe that the Constitution allows discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation as long as tax money is not involved. This is shameful beyond belief.
You're pretty thick so I'll repost this one last time:
The United States Constitution does not "allow" anything - - the Constitution ONLY tells GOVERNMENT those things that GOVERNMENT is allowed to do, and then for good measure goes on to specify (in the Bill of Rights) some of the things that GOVERNMENT better not even THINK about doing. For example:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." (That's the First Amendment by the way.)
P.S. There is a wealth of information about the basics of the US Constitution, and it is all right there at your fingertips courtesy of the internet. I urge you to study up and then you can come back to Free Republic armed with the knowledge to debate intelligently. Happy surfing!
"You are the one with terrible mental disorder."
Ah, the Pee-Wee Herman defense: "I know you are, but what am I?"
How appropriate.
"sexual orientation"
There is no such thing as "sexual orientation" in the sense you are using it. Homosexual behavior is nothing more dignified than the symptom of a mental disorder.
Actually, trying to lump disordered behavior into the same set as race, sex, or religion is pretty strong prima facie evidence that one is a few rivets shy of a skyscraper.
#####It is really very sad to have people like you right here on this great forum, who stupidly believe that the Constitution allows discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation as long as tax money is not involved. This is shameful beyond belief#####
Damn! Maybe I should be banned from FreeRepublic!
God (or evolution or whomever or whatever ) created Man, with unalienable rights. Some of the Men in North America came together to make a written agreement to form a government to further some of their mutual interests. That written agreement is the Constitution and as ammended still applies. It grants the federal government certain power and authority, to accomplish certain common objectives. It places explicit constraints on that authority. It provides for specific structure and proceedings which that government must follow.
I don't need constitutional permission to choose to discriminate against fools, or whatever sort of person I dislike. So long as I don't infringe on your unalienable rights to progress in your life as best you are able, I am free to associate or not with you, and to do business or not with you, without any government authorization.
So, yes, literally, the Constitution does not allow discrimination in private affairs. But it doesn't prohibit it either, the wildly overstretched commerce clause perhaps notwithstanding.
Of course, my right to discriminate against you does not give me the right to affect harm on you, your property or your family. We have authorized our government to enforce laws that provide for the common safety and security of us all.