KingEidilleg said:
KylieDog said: The Bill is wrong, but don't shop owners have the right to turn away anyone anyway? |
No, because that would mean you could show someone the door if you don't like their skin color, gender etc. That is discrimination.... unless you live in Arizona of course and turn away someone you think is gay.
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Well, don't businesses have a right to discrimination? Many often do discriminate, too. They discriminate against poor workers in favour of good workers. Many businesses discriminate on basis of race and gender, too, if it's good for business - think Epcot, restaurants, Hollywood. You then also have positive discrimination, which in many ways is forced by law in some places - forced quotas of races and genders, which results in unfairly high standards being placed on the majority, in favour of minorities.
Not that I'm defending discrimination for reasons of hatred. I think it's a disgusting act, and I wouldn't (knowingly) support any business that engaged in it. But in a question of rights, the business owner should have the right to discriminate however he chooses... he's the property owner. You can refuse access to your house to anybody based on whatever reasoning, just because you're selling something in the front room shouldn't change that.
It's terrible practise business wise, however, and the market would eventually eliminate the discrimination. Businesses who refuse chunks of service for arbitary reasons are going to be outcompeted by businesses who don't. Same with workforce. If you don't hire some dude because he's gay, but he happens to be more productive than all the straight people in this industry, for whatever reason, he's going to go to your competition and the competition will benefit from your discrimination. Increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving profitability.