[tonyome]

Should the hairdresser be sued for his discrimination and forced to comply?

[onyx]

Listen here, it's even worse.

Apparently he's a spiteful homosexual, to boot....lol.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez will never get the secret formula for her hair color, EITHER, which was created just for her...LOL.

[VRWCmember]

File a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission for this discrimination.

[swamprebel]

Yes, it's a two way street. It's been established law for 50 years. Under the 1964 Civil rights act, the public accommodation clause, the hair dresser is breaking the law. If your open for business, you must serve all customers wishing to do business, and able to financially do so.

[EDINVA]

“Should the hairdresser be sued for his discrimination and forced to comply?”

Yes...and the state should pull his license for discriminating!

[kevkrom]

Compare and contrast:

1) A baker provides all manner of service for gay customers, except for baking a cake for a “gay wedding” due to religious objections.

2) A gay hairdresser refuses any service to a customer solely on the basis of political differences.

Clearly, setting aside “protected status” of the parties involved, the second case is far more morally objectionable than the first one - the first case discriminates not against the customers themselves, but for a specific service that the provider believes is against his/her religious beliefs, whereas the second case discriminates directly against the customer.

And yet, the baker is an evil bigot and the hairdresser is a courageous defender of the downtrodden. Welcome to modern day Gemh... er... America.

The double standard is what really annoys me here. Personally, I believe that in both cases, the service provider is within their rights to refuse service to any customer they don’t want to do business with, regardless of whether or not anyone else agrees with their decisions.

[I want the USA back]

The double standard:

normal people are always wrong.
government-approved victim group members are always right.

there is no other right and wrong.

[Linda Frances]

I read somewhere. Should gay T-shirt shops be forced to make T-shirts that say God hates fags?

[DoodleDawg]

Should the hairdresser be sued for his discrimination and forced to comply?

I'm not sure I'd want to see the results if you did and won.

[IYAS9YAS]

Not sure of the article, but this story is a couple of years old. I remember hearing about it on the news shortly after she was sworn in in 2011.

[Secret Agent Man]

if christians bakers are forced to bake cakes for gay weddings, a gay stylist should be forced to to do this.

of course then wouldn’t trust him to do a good job.

[Sopater]

I really wouldn’t want someone to cut my hair who really didn’t want to or had some kind of bone to pick with me.

[Jane Long]

Governor Brewer was unavailable for comment.

snark

[spodefly]

It’s OK when they do it ...

[RightGeek]

[Wuli]

I’m fine with his decision. Now, if only the idiot would realize that our support for HIS decision is not only right, BUT it goes both ways.

[Arthur McGowan]

The headline should read:

Merchant Refuses to Serve Customer Because of Gay Marriage

Now, going just by this headline: Who is the good guy and who is the villain?

[Amagi]

Don't we have a legal precedent such that Mr. Antonio Light-In-The-Loafers can not refuse to provide his services?
Payback can be bitchy.