liberals: american society is becoming increasingly hostile towards blacks and gays
also liberals: social convention will prevent businesses from discriminating against blacks and gays
Legit question--are you a deep cover troll--or just the biggest handicap in this whole thread? Literally nobody here has defended the shop owner's actions (only his legal rights) because the dude is a loving
starfish. So who are these dreaded 'liberals' that are swarming in to support the guy? They don't exist. You can't hold your ground against people of literally any caliber so you're bullstuffting to yourself and pretending to win arguments against morons that don't even exist. That's really pathetic dude. You stood out in a sea of stuffty arguments and declared yourself king.
If a Christian bakery doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay couple, they should be able to choose that, but they're still starfishs. Same thing here.
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Not really. Under US law we have protected groups who you cannot discriminate against. Homoloveuals are a protected group, so you have to bake them a cake just as if they were not gays. Christians are also a protected group--you can't refuse service to Christians in your business unless it's inherently religious. But this dude wasn't pissed at them for their religion, he was angry about them protesting abortion. Still a richard.
I cant wait to see all the liberal extremists come out of the woodworks and holler "Well theyre a private business they can do what they want!" but if the tables were turned theyd cry "Persecution!".
got bad news for you. it's not discrimination to kick people out of your store because 'anti-abortion advocates' are not a protected group, while homoloveuals are. so, yea, the metaphorical 'dumb liberals' are exactly right. if those gay men were kicked because they were protesting gun rights or something, the situations would be exactly the same.
I think they should have a right to do this, and likewise Christians have a right to discriminate against them in turn.
You can legally discriminate against people based on political belief, but not based of loveual orientation. Sorry.