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originally posted by: DBCowboy
One is free to act on their religious beliefs until those actions take away the rights of others, for example you can't kill someone even if your religious belief is that you can. Everyone has the civil right to public accommodations, and turning someone away because of their race, gender, nationality or sexual orientation takes away that right.
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: ElGoobero
Omg this leap of logic!!
Look, I get many Trump supporters see him as their God but he's just one person, not an entire minority group who've been discriminated since forever. They're not supporting him because they don't agree with his politics and everything that embodies Trump.
Good lord!
originally posted by: UKTruth
originally posted by: Swills
a reply to: ElGoobero
Omg this leap of logic!!
Look, I get many Trump supporters see him as their God but he's just one person, not an entire minority group who've been discriminated since forever. They're not supporting him because they don't agree with his politics and everything that embodies Trump.
Good lord!
Spot on. But it gets quite murky from their if it's ok to refuse service to someone based on their political ideology. Would it be ok for a restaurant owner to eject a customer because he was a Democrat? Let's day it was a black muslim democrat. Any comeback on the owner and all he has to say is, no it was not race or religion, I just disagree with the politics.
Trump is not being refused because he is a straight white male. He is not being refused because he is wanting services for a specific event. He is being refused because of the horrible things he says.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
No, being gay or straight is not a behavior. It is a sexual orientation, and something one cannot change.
There is a fascinating collection of behavioral and brain differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals. However, none of these findings is (yet) unambiguous evidence that homosexuality is innate. The reason is that each of these characteristics might be attributable to experience; in other words, these differences might be acquired.
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: ketsuko
Yes you can refuse to serve someone if they are acting in a manner that is disruptive, threatening, obnoxious, etc.
You cannot refuse someone because of their race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation. But, you know this, so I don't know why I have to keep repeating it.
Public accommodations includes having access to the same products and services that everyone else gets.