An Absolute Right to Refuse Service

Townhall.com ^ | March 3, 2014 | Matt Barber

[GeronL]

If Jan Bewer’s gay hairstylist can refuse her business, why can’t Christians do that too?

[GeronL]

Let me put it this way, homosexuals and Muslims will have the right to refuse your business but Christians won’t

[unixfox]

I have the right to refuse service to anybody I deem a MARXIST/LIBERAL/COMMUNIST.

I also have the right to refuse them employment.

[shove_it]

Catastrophic logic beautifully argued!

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[lightman]

* Should a homosexual baker be forced to make a “God Hates Fags” cake for Westboro Baptist Church, simply because its members claim to be Christian?

* Should a black printer be forced to develop and print thousands of “White Power!” flyers for a skinhead rally just because the potential customer is white?

* Should a Christian florist be compelled to create and provide black floral arrangements to a hell-bound customer for her upcoming Satanist ritual?

* Should a progressive environmentalist sign-maker be required to design and manufacture “Global Warming Is a Farce” signs for a tea party rally?

* Should a Muslim photographer, commissioned by San Francisco’s “Folsom Street Fair,” be forced to document that vile event – rife with nudity and public sex – simply because the customers identify as gay?

* Should a “gay married” lesbian hotel owner – a card-carrying member of GLAAD – be required, under threat of incarceration, to host and cater a fundraiser for the “National Organization for Marriage,” a group that opposes “marriage equality”?

EXCELLENT illustrations!

[BilLies]

I had heard it was the hair dresser of the governor of New Mexico, not Arizona.
It would have/should have made the national headlines if it were Jan Brewer.

[maica]

And whatever happened to “no shirt, no shoes, no service” ? seen at many shops at resorts

Or “only two children with backpacks in the store at one time” - sign near a middle school.

[Elsie]

Albert Einstein once said, “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

I guess he'd make an exception about the Mormons and polygamy.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Most here are loathe to admit it, but we sacrificed the “absolute right to refuse service” with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Business owners have not actually had such a right since the day it was signed.

We did it for the most noble of reasons. But put ourselves on a very slippery slope in the process. Unintended consequences.

[jsanders2001]

> I have the right to refuse service to anybody I deem a MARXIST/LIBERAL/COMMUNIST.

I also have the right to refuse them employment.

You just found a more qualified candidate for the job...

[Kaslin]

Wait a minute, if her hair stylist is gay, who styles her hair then?

[cripplecreek]

I support the absolute right to refuse service in all but life or death matters. It makes good business sense.

If a klansman opens a whites only business it leaves a niche for a blacks only business. Both racist owned businesses leave a niche for a business that caters to all who come through the door.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
- Calvin Coolidge

[BilLies]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gay-hair-stylist-drops-new-mexico-governor-client-opposes-same-sex-marriage-article-1.1027072

The article is from 2012, would have thought it would have been in the commentaries about Arizona.
The fellas at the filtered News Services are always on the job.

[MrB]

Good counter illustrations, but in offering them up, you must assert the truth about the agenda.

The agenda is anti-Christian. All answers to your scenarios will be given within this agenda.

The goal is the criminalization of Christian belief and the punishment thereof by the State.

And we need to call them out on it, not pussyfoot around with counter-examples to point out their “hypocrisy”.
Pointing out hypocrisy is a “shame” tactic, and it does not work with the left.

[GeronL]

I heard it wrong, I also didn’t know it was years ago

[cripplecreek]

We did it for the most noble of reasons. But put ourselves on a very slippery slope in the process. Unintended consequences.

Its exactly why Barry Goldwater opposed the 1964 version. He was fine with affirmative action in government and federally funded programs for a while but warned that inflicting it on the private sector would be a disaster. He himself was practicing affirmative action in his own offices and personal business dealings before it ever became an issue.

[BitWielder1]

Freedom of Association must include the freedom NOT to associate with people whom I consider unsavory, or it's not a freedom at all.

[fedupjohn]

Bttt