Posted on 07/02/2013 9:01:34 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
A business should be able to refuse service to anybody for any reason, including skin color, race, gender, national origin, sex, religion, creed, viewpoint, handicap condition, mental condition....
That’s the real problem, we have become a nation where federal law is used to make people be “nice”.
I don’t think anyone should be denied service based on race, etc., but I know it’s become a real problem that federal law is involved. In most places, local, state, and federal law all proscribe the same activity.
Everything does not need to be a “federal case”.
The 1950s and 1960s ended that, when the WWII generation came home and sent the paratroops into our towns to get America shaped to their new vision.
If the government can force a specific bean merchant to sell beans to red heads, and the government can force red heads to buy beans from some bean merchant, then I suppose the government can force red heads to buy beans from a specific blue haired bean merchant.
Unfortunately for freedom that ship sailed away fifty years ago to a fanfare of “civil rights legislation.” It isn’t coming back.
:: A business should be able to refuse service to anybody for any reason ::
Amd not be legally expected to provide that reason.
The supreme court has ruled that you do not have the right to refuse service to anyone, anymore. This is a ready made ambulance chaser ruling crafted solely to shake down anyone who may be slightly offended by your business practices. The lawyer-government complex is salivating at all of the perceived sleight lawsuits as we speak.
He has hit on something here. I propose that groups send forth “War Shoppers” whose assignment is to do some of the very things he wrote, get refused service upon religious reasons, and then sue citing the SCOTUS case described.
People are always asking, “What can one person do?” Here’s an answer - War Shopping. Go do unto them as they have done unto our Constitution and our civil rights and right of free association. “Freedom From Religion?” Fine. How about “Freedom From Overbearing Atheist Morons?” That works too, and SCOTUS has unwittingly given us the weapon.
Provoke an incident AND SUE THIER LIBBY BUTTS!
FIGHT BACK! DO NOT SUBMIT ANY LONGER!
W of B
The good doctor wrote:
What about a Jewish baker refusing to make a cake for a meeting of holocaust deniers? How about a black baker who refuses to bake a cake for the KKK? Can a Muslim business refuse to serve a Jew, or a Muslim caterer refuse to provide pork for a Christian organization? How about a gun-hating baker refusing to bake a cake for a gun manufacturer’s annual party? What about a “gay” architect refusing to draw plans for a pro-family group? What about a radical leftist printing firm refusing to print material for an outspoken conservative cause?
Can a liberal refuse to make a cup of coffee for a conservative businessman?
I listened to an atheist "public relations" troglodyte on Michael Medved's radio show yesterday.
He repeated the same mantra that is the God haters doctrine: "People can have freedom of religion, but they can't harm someone else through their beliefs. If their beliefs cause harm to gays or pro-choice citizens, that cannot be tolerated in this country."
For the clueless who have not been paying attention, that is the same arguement the IRS agents used when they were intimidating Chrisitan pastors and churches (some of it on audiotape).
If you choose to be on God's side, you are going to be persecuted in this country, and the persecution has only just begun.
Christians are a reminder to the Godless that they are on the side of evil. Evil cannot tolerate being exposed.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
John 3:20
**The Supreme Court Justices recently made a decision that is squalid, shameful, sorry, shocking, and stupefying that will put perverts on a pedestal and decent Christians in prison! That decision will affect churches, schools, and businesses.**
No mincing of words here!
Most certainly.
Things that should be tried and when found, sue the business like homos do. This would help set precedent and (hopefully) really confuse the libs. Hoist them on their own petard!
What's a petard, anyway???)
The homosexual crowd’s agenda has placed all Christians (not just businesses) in a difficult position.
Should be an illegal act, but liberals being as childish as they are (a requirement to believe all the crap they do), I would not let a liberal getting me a cup of coffee know I was a conservative. Who knows what they'd put in it.
I think Christians SHOULD take the homosexual’s money. Why not? It all spends. However, you can also put a sign on your door that says “10% of the proceeds of all sales goes to a Bible-believing Christian church.”
This is frequently applied to “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service”
For the subject at hand, I would add;
“Incompatible Plumbing”
“I think Christians SHOULD take the homosexual’s money. Why not? It all spends. However, you can also put a sign on your door that says “10% of the proceeds of all sales goes to a Bible-believing Christian church.””
Totally agree! As a businessman I wouldn’t hesitate to sell or buy from anyone. I’ll just put the money I make to good use.
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