Should a business be able to deny service to a customer if the request conflicts with the owner’s religious beliefs?
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Giving businesses the same rights as citizens with respects to religious liberty is very dangerous and a path to a never ending slippery slope. Businesses are not people.
"The business" didn't decline to bake a custom-ordered wedding cake for a same sex wedding, the baker did.
No, they shouldn't have to abide by those laws, because they're violations of their inherent rights of self-ownership.
So too with health codes, safety statutes. The enforcement of a business's obligation to pay rent to its landlord likewise violates that inherent right.
So too with health codes, safety statutes. The enforcement of a business's obligation to pay rent to its landlord likewise violates that inherent right.
Health codes and safety statutes are not consensual agreements.
Get this straight. Complaining about a business's practices is not the same as prohibiting the practice. It's perfectly ok to complain about or to a business that refuses to serve cops, gay weddings, wearers of MAGA or Impeach Trump t-shirts, etc. The issue is, should it be illegal.
Yes, you got it. A lot of these arguments follow the same logic as people who opposed/currently oppose freedom of speech.
If you said someone has the right to claim that Hitler was a good guy, or rape should be legal, or you should worship Satan, or whatever, they would act as if you're condoning those things and argue for laws against it. We're just saying they have the right to do it, not that we agree with it.
Health codes and safety statutes are not consensual agreements.
A landlord/renter agreement is consensual.
Start from there.
If you operate a business, you are required to abide by health and safety codes. Do you also disagree with the Constitutionality of those codes?
If you breach a contract such as a lease, you may be taken to a government-operated Court, have a money judgment entered against you, evicted, and forcibly removed from your leasehold by a marshal. Do you disagree that the government should have the power to do that?
If it's a private their business, they should have the right to conduct their business any way they wish, whether it's social or religious. Let's say a shop opens and the proprietor refuses to serve black people, then their only customer will be racists, can their business survive vs a non discriminatory business? That's the price and consequence of free enterprise.
If you operate a business, you are required to abide by health and safety codes. Do you also disagree with the Constitutionality of those codes?
If you breach a contract such as a lease, you may be taken to a government-operated Court, have a money judgment entered against you, evicted, and forcibly removed from your leasehold by a marshal. Do you disagree that the government should have the power to do that?
No and no.
I never signed the Constitution.
And as I've so eloquently stated numerous times on this forum flying out of a vagina does not equate to consent.
In a free society an agreed upon resolution council would hear contractual disputes.
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