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"Supreme Court allows Mississippi anti-LGBT law to stand"
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No-one is being forced to give a service. People give the service that they choose to provide as part of their job, they must merely give it to people without discrimination.
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They also aren't being forced to go against their beliefs - they are being forced to do their jobs. They can still believe what they want - they can believe gay marriage is wrong if that's what they want to think - but they can't discriminate on people based on that.
The issue is especially egregious when it comes to state employee issuing marriage licenses, who have taken a job specifically to service the public. I wouldn't have much sympathy for a Muslim purposely working at a pig slaughterhouse who demanded of his bosses that he got paid but didn't want to do the work.
Also customers are entitled not to be denied service based on protected characteristics like race and sexual orientation. There are specifically laws to that effect!
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"Also customers are entitled not to be denied service based on protected characteristics like race and sexual orientation. There are specifically laws to that effect!"
I don't believe that they are entitled to the services of another, as the performing of services are first and foremost the decision of the business. That is exactly why I believe that the law is completely justified for privately owned businesses. For governments, it shouldn't be permitted for an employee to refuse service, but for a private business it is completely justified to refuse service based on religious beliefs.
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But it specifically isn't their right to refuse service as past supreme court decisions on discrimination have shown and as this one will shown when the new case involving plaintiffs directly effected by it goes to the Supreme Court.
By allowing businesses to discriminate we will allow various minorities - whether that be religious, racial, sexual, political or other to become second class citizens. While it is all very well and good to say that a minority can do the same back - that a Sikh could refuse to serve all non-Sikhs and so there is therefore de jure equality - that doesn't work if the minority represents 1% of the population and they're facing potential discrimination from the other 99%. It's de facto second class citizen status where people's ability to live in society is restricted by whether they worship the popular god, have sex the right way, have the right skin colour, etc.
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It is not the same with public entities, like governments, or public businesses. If a state law says that same sex marriage is a right, or if Federal Law which supplants state law says that same sex marriage is a right, then no governmental agency, nor any public service provider has the right to refuse their services to any same sex couple.
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