should you have to clearly and prominently display it at your place of business?

 

In other words, if you don't want to serve a gay couple or an interracial couple should you have to have a sign that says:

 

*****

Gay Couples Not Allowed on Premise

Interracial Couples Not Allowed on Premise

 

You will Not be Served

You will be Prosecuted for Trespassing

*****

If companies want to do that I feel a lot better about their right of refusal becoming law.

 

It shouldn't be a problem, right? If that is how you feel for religious reasons (or any other reason I suppose) you shouldn't have any problem stating it.

 

Thoughts? Agree? Disagree?

How are they going to prove they are a couple. "G", if you and I go to one of these establishments to eat, do business whatever, and they say we are gay and throw us out,refuse to serve us or sell us something. Would we win a lawsuit? How do you prove this for certain?

 

Slippery, slippery slope IMO.

How are they going to prove they are a couple. "G", if you and I go to one of these establishments to eat, do business whatever, and they say we are gay and throw us out,refuse to serve us or sell us something. Would we win a lawsuit? How do you prove this for certain?

 

Slippery, slippery slope IMO.

 

The point is not proving anything. The point is making businesses that want a right to refuse someone (or a right to discriminate against someone depending on your point of view) reveal to everyone by sign on the front of their business exactly who is not welcome at their place of business.

Why should they?

Your topic says " because they are different than you ". that's little different than "because of my religious beliefs". Either way, in another thread I said: you should have the right to refuse service or sale to anyone and not have to disclose the reason.

Have you ever seen a sign at a place of business that reads" we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone ". Don't see it much, but it's out there.

No shirt. No shoes. No mongrelization of the races. No gayness.

Should you have to display a sign? I don't think so, but in a lot of cases it would stop the problem before it starts.So I say display the sign, that way there is no question. the ones you are refusing service to can move on down the road.

If you're bold enough to refuse people for the stated reasons, you should be bold enough to put up a sign about it.

 

If you're going to talk the talk, you better be able to walk the walk. Or shut up.

No shirt. No shoes. No mongrelization of the races. No gayness.

 

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Should you have to display a sign? I don't think so, but in a lot of cases it would stop the problem before it starts.So I say display the sign, that way there is no question. the ones you are refusing service to can move on down the road.

 

Yeah, that would stop the problem before it stops. So long as you fail to see the real problem which is the desire to discriminate against people. Discriminating against people is a problem, and hanging a sign up doesn't change that.

If companies want to do that I feel a lot better about their right of refusal becoming law.

 

It shouldn't be a problem, right? If that is how you feel for religious reasons (or any other reason I suppose) you shouldn't have any problem stating it.

 

Thoughts? Agree? Disagree?

 

If they are going to avail themselves to any Government subsidizing, then they CANNOT refuse groups protected by the Civil Rights Act and Supreme Court rulings, IMO.

Yeah, that would stop the problem before it stops. So long as you fail to see the real problem which is the desire to discriminate against people. Discriminating against people is a problem, and hanging a sign up doesn't change that.

 

I think the sense of entitlement is the bigger problem. Why do you (the impersonal you) think that you should be able to go wherever, eat wherever or do whatever you want, especially in regards to private businesses? If the owner of the business doesn't want you there, then so be it. Go somewhere else.

 

The owner of a private business has every right to decide who he/she wants to do business with, and if that ultimately hurts their business and forces them to go bankrupt/ go out of business, then that is their problem.

The OP is a terribly contrived scenario for the purpose of generating heated discussion.

I think the sense of entitlement is the bigger problem. Why do you (the impersonal you) think that you should be able to go wherever, eat wherever or do whatever you want, especially in regards to private businesses? If the owner of the business doesn't want you there, then so be it. Go somewhere else.

 

The owner of a private business has every right to decide who he/she wants to do business with, and if that ultimately hurts their business and forces them to go bankrupt/ go out of business, then that is their problem.

 

Except they don't. We have laws to protect against this. Not gonna back to those days, not without a fight. If someone harbors such hatred and/or fear against someone that they can't sell them a cupcake, then that is their problem. No sense in tailoring our laws and our society to fit the hatred/fear that some people have of others.