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Worry about what? You seem oddly pessimistic.
And, by the way, businesses are allowed to refuse service all the time! The TV networks have refused to take public ads that they found too controversial, usually religious messages, for the Super Bowl and other sporting and public events. Businesses CAN and do have the right to refuse business from nearly anyone! They just cannot illegally discriminate.
It is up to the individual business owner. No matter their faith. Anyone who has ever suffered discrimination, and I have, knows how it feels.
We shouldn't. A business owner should have the right to refuse service to anyoneWell, if there's no difference between "we don't serve your kind here" and "God wouldn't like it if we served your kind here," then why do we need a law to allow only for religious excuses?
The question has to be asked. If we can force [businesses to serve customers, can we force customers to patronize a business?Freedom of association is like the most abused of the American freedoms. We can all appreciate the history behind why this is so, and the good intentions that went into the regulation of that freedom into an increasingly banal and meaningless freedom.
That doesn't mean that that freedom has been trod on and ground into the dirt rather thoroughly by now.
The question has to be asked. If we can force [businesses to serve customers, can we force customers to patronize a business?
We shouldn't. A business owner should have the right to refuse service to anyone
The question has to be asked. If we can force [businesses to serve customers, can we force customers to patronize a business?
I don't know that liberty has ever actually existed in any society from the dawn of civilization until the American revolution, and the progression of liberties that ensued from the proclamation of that radical ideal.
Perhaps, before the dawn of civilization, in primitive tribal communities something close to liberty was the norm, but from the time of the pharoahs, men have lived in chains.
There is nothing easy about liberty though. People who are free to act morally and respectfully are also free to act unkindly and disrespectfully. Words wound, people get left out, feelings get hurt.
It doesn't change the fact that liberty is our destiny. We were all born to be free, and as long as there is human nature, people will continue to kick at their oppressors.
It's called liberty
Sure, that's the whole point of Obamacare.The question has to be asked. If we can force businesses to serve customers, can we force customers to patronize a business?
Sure, that's the whole point of Obamacare.
The difference there is that driving is a privilege and the insurance is to protect the people you might harmThat concept existed before Obamacare -- for example, in my home state of New Jersey, car owners are required by law to have car insurance.
That concept existed before Obamacare -- for example, in my home state of New Jersey, car owners are required by law to have car insurance.
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