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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think businesses should be allowed to run their business as they see fit.

I think public opinion will then decide if they want to spend their money on said business or not.

Pretty simple.[/quote]

OP yet again -- and do you still agree with that plan if the situation will not be affected by public opinion? Say I'm black and living in a small, isolated town. None of the businesses will do business with me because of my race. No one else in town cares enough to boycott said businesses, and I have no alternatives in the area. [/quote]

This is why we have civil rights laws.[/quote]

I'm with you -- that's why I posted the above hypothetical. My larger point is, do civil rights laws also protect the neo-Nazi who wants a Jewish baker to decorate a swastika cake for a Hitler birthday party? When do business owners have the right to say no? And assuming they do have some (presumably limited) right to say no, how you keep that from being a slippery slope down to refusing service based on race/sex/orientation/etc? I'm confused about where the line is drawn, both in people's own minds/ethics, and in the (current US) law.

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