Virginia Restaurant refuses to serve conservative group

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Restaurant denies Christian group service over its anti-abortion and LGBTQ stances

Wasn't there a cake shop in the US that refused to service gay people?

I would refuse to serve them, too. People like that most certainly wouldn't taste very good!

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

Its against the law to refuse service to individuals based upon creed (beliefs, ideologies), and against the law to refuse to hire folks based upon creed. I am not sure if its against the law to refuse to allow a group to have an event at your venue because of their political beliefs, or not.

If a conservative religious business can refuse to someone whom they perceive as a threat, then conservative religious groups should expect to be refused service by someone who sees them as a threat.

The Golden Rule is coming back to bite right-wing, religious conservatives squarely in their hypocritical, holier-than-thou butts.  So, if any of those self-righteous right-wingers want to be treated with respect, then they had better start showing respect for others, regardless of their age, race, gender, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), religion, national origin, and physical or mental disability.

The ACLU famously went to bat for the American Nazis so they could be allowed to march in Skokie Indiana back in the Eighties.

But that was down a public street.

If you're a private restaurant owner would it be illegal for you to refuse to allow the American Nazi party to stage a fundraising bingo party at your restaurant? Or the KKK, or the Commies, or the North American Man-Boy Love Association?

My gut feeling is that that would not be illegal.

You might not want your name and that of your venue to be publicly associated with said group, and hurt business (among other reasons). I would think that the law would respect that.

As has been said the restaurant can not refuse to serve them because they are Christians. They can refuse to serve based on opposing trans women on women’s sports teams. As noted the courts upheld a restaurant that refused to serve a guy with a MAGA hat.

I imagine the Family Foundation is going to claim that their contribution is practicing their religion thus discriminating against them is illegal discrimination against their religion. I would not think that will fly as contributions to advocacy organizations are considered political acts. It may be based on religious beliefs, but still a political act. But with SCOTUS the way it is who knows.

I do not know if the amount of business that discriminate against customers based on political beliefs has increased but business citing employees being offended by customer opinion as a reason for discriminating is a recent phenomenon. It used to be “the customer is always right”. That was not meant literally. It meant while the customer may be dead wrong as an employee you were expected to pretend they are right and suck up to them in hopes that they will return and even better recommend the business to others.

^That “rule,” about customer service is about some ahole customer who says his drink had too much ice or his soup arrived too slowly being “right,” no matter what, Not about having to allow people that hate you and make you feel unsafe to be your customers.

It’s a far stretch to say service staff are obligated to agree with the bigoted views of their customers for the sake of gaining repeat business. It should be the opposite: Management/Ownership telling those potential customers to pound sand.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

Of course, a restaurant has the right to refuse service----but to refuse service based upon someone's political beliefs is ridiculous.

I am left of center and I think this was a bit much.

They should have served, and made sure to have their LGBT staff on hand in rainbow colored uniforms (if they want, or they can just wear normal stuff).

I remember the Chick fil A backlash.

I think society often reaches a tipping point on some sort of new value and then goes nuts on punishing people who don't adapt.

I expect in my lifetime to see people who eat meat become demonized if/when lab grown meat becomes viable.

I could see future citizens looking at statues from our era and going, "oh, but he was a meat eater, tear it down."

Lol some of you guys just don’t get it.

Imagine being a black woman being forced to wait on klansmen. F that!

Homophobe convention in the restaurant I work at? Naaaah; either management declined their business or myself and many of the rest of the staff would just walk off the job and quit and tell manage my good luck with running a restaurant in this town without any lgbt people.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

This isn't a black woman being forced to wait on a Klansman.....

Nor is it a gay waiter having to wait on obviously homophobic people.

It's just a "liberal" restaurant refusing to wait on a "conservative" group.

This world is becoming too "black and white." We have to learn to tolerate political differences more. Conservatives and liberals used to be able to get along, and do bipartisan things. They had common ground. Nowadays, though, we're too polarized to get anything substantial done. Because of the stalemates caused by political differences.

If I were a boss, I wouldn't make a black woman (or black man) wait on a Klansman.

Or a Jew wait on some person in a Nazi uniform.