The quick answer to this is no. The long answer to this is: a business owner, or an employee, has the right, (ignoring any unconstitutional laws that have been passed to the contrary), to refuse service to anyone for any reason. However, when we start assigning specific rights to particular groups of people they stop being rights and become privileges. Thus the simple answer of no. Also, just because the right to refuse service exists, that doesnt mean one will get away with that discrimination. If an employee refuses service based on religious faith, and that action is not in alignment with the employers moral compass, that employer has the right to fire said employee regardless of the employees choice to act from a religious motive. In the same vein, if a business executes its right of refusal to someone, the discriminated individual does have the right to sue, as happens all the time, but once a court rules in favor of that plaintiff, the rights of the business owner have been violated. This violation becomes precedent, then slowly but surely the hurt feelings of a few cause an erosion of the freedom of the many. So, yeah. Not such a simple answer.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 03:55:06 +0000
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