| mrstickball said: its clear that EqualityMatters wants to take away their right to disagree. That is equally as abhorrent as an organization that would attempt to take away rights from others, or continue to supress the rights of others. The right to free speech is the cornerstone of our society, and EqualityMatters wants to undermine that. They are doing it under the guise of other things, but what they're doing is just as egregious as the same people that passed Prop 8. |
Corporations do not have those rights. The individuals that make up those corporations deserve free speech and the ability to donate to who they want, but corporations have never been able to print what they want in advertising material or fund what they want politically.
That said, the government doesn't have the right to stop them building a store in their city because the individuals that make it up disagree with the stated beliefs of the individuals that make up the restaurant. It's not within their power, if we are to have a free market. They can restrict explicitly anti-gay-rights material being distributed through the stores, but not its operations.
