Do Businesses Have the Right to Refuse Service Based on Moral/Religious Objections?

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Originally Posted by Toughy

Since you used my verbiage, I figure ya must be yakking at me. I do not believe you 'grok' what I wrote.

I have trouble with your first paragraph. I can't believe you want the government's nose up your ass and in your business every moment. The government has no right what so ever to tell me how to run my business as long as I don't take government money and I pay all my taxes (no tax breaks) (with normal exceptions of health and safety).

(ps.....I have a libertarian streak )

Toughy,

Doesn't your government already tell you that you cannot discriminate in your private business against certain groups of people?

Didn't your government intervene to stop unfair and prejudicial business practices with Title 2 of Civil Rights Act?

I am asking if people believe that private businesses should be allowed to deny services based on that owner's religious or moral beliefs.

Because of the Civil Rights Act, isn't it true that a local store cannot deny a Muslim couple goods and services just because the owners don't approve of non-Christians?

I thought that since this law has been in place since 1964 that people would largely agree that a private business cannot deny service--regardless of the owner's moral or religious beliefs--to someone based on that person's, race, religion, gender, or ethnicity....and, consequently, support a queer couple's right to goods and services as well.