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Originally Posted by hbdwihdh378y9
You have to make a living. Whatever you do, they can impose the same requirements. So that's a silly argument.
Moreover, the issue in the lawsuit wasn't the bakery not being "open" to the public. The issue had to do with a part of the business that apparently wasn't open to the public, which means that by your argument they wouldn't have to accept public accommodation laws. The statute is really stupidly drafted.
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No. A business in Oregon can still be private, with no public access or outreach to the community at large.
A good example would possibly be a kosher bakery that sells its cakes only through word of mouth to a Jewish clientele only. That bakery would still be legal, even if it only agreed to sell cakes to only Orthodox Jews, never selling to Reform Jews.
There are many other specialized businesses of all kinds that serve specialized clienteles. Here in my own hometown, there are many of them.
One sells only piping valves that are used in nuclear reactors. Their doors are open to the public, so if I ever wanted to build a reactor in my back yard, I could walk right in and buy a valve from them, but I would have to look around to find someone to sell it to me, as they have no sales counter. And the paperwork involved in buying one would take longer than it would to buy the valve anywhere else. And those valves aren't sold on the internet.
I might be able to find a valve that is just as good at my local plumbing supply, though, because a brass valve is only a brass valve.
But at the plumbing supply, I could be standing next to a homosexual with plumbing problems, or a Jew who's doing some remodeling, or a black guy whose outside faucet bib just blew and is flooding his basement. Since that business has it's doors open to all, they can't turn away anyone due to the personal beliefs of the store's owners.
That valve could be just as good in every way as the one in the specialized nuclear outfit. The only difference is one is certified to be safe operating in the middle of a reactor, while its twin in the plumbing house isn't certified. Withstanding nuclear radiation is important, so it's both costly and requires specialization in its supply needs.
So that certified valve would be a lot more expensive. But if I had really bad hard water problems, maybe that valve would be worth all the time, money and hassle to get it, if I never wanted to mess with the valve again.
Who knows? I might have to be certified myself just to be able to buy one, as we don't want those valves going into the wrong hands somewhere else. But, in the end, it's still just a valve. And the nuclear industry needs people to go to supply stores to get them once in a while legally.
So both supply places are equally legal under the law. Different businesses, each set up for different supply and service. One has closed doors, the other has none.
Can you understand the difference now?
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