re: Catholic couple fined $13,000 for refusing to host same-sex ‘wedding’

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When you say "personal beliefs" are you talking about religious beliefs? Also, does your scenario only involve discriminating against gay people?

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no, i meant personal.

i think that if a business wants to discriminate and be a bigot/homophobe/racist/reverse-racist, they have that right. and then we as a society have a right to protest, picket, avoid, or patronize that company as seen fit.

Case in point: Chick Fil A donated to some anti-gay/pro-marriage/whatever organizations. I can take or leave what somebody does with their charitable contributions for the most part. I do however support Chic-Fil-A's way they treat their customers and employees, their minority, elderly, and special needs hiring practices, and (based on anecdotal evidence) how they've treated gay employees. I feel that people have the right to scream holler, boycott, protest, whatever they do against chic fil a as a result. And we saw that the majority of the public outdid the boycott that single day with a a buycott. But i would become very angry if the Government stepped in in any form in telling a company how to spend its money.

To relate that to race, i don't know of any place i can name that treats people of different color differently, but if i did, i'd choose not to patronize it. I'm not going to scream to the government or sue because a person wanted to make a personal stupid decision. if i were a clippers fan and attended games or anything of the sort last year, i would have cancelled any monetary support of the team until sterling was gone, but Silver's actions were too much. With the Redskins, I don't think the NFL has any business telling Snyder what to do. But Harry Reid has every right to cancel his season tickets.