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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (74374)9/10/2003 8:13:27 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The debate is about those legal requirements.

And why those legal requirements exist is to enforce the fundamental right of all citizens to engage fairly and equitably in the marketplace without being discriminated against on the basis of certain immutable characteristics. No more redlining. No more "Jews and Catholics need ot apply."

There is private life, and there is public life. In your private life, you can discriminate all you want to. But when you enter the public arena, when you want to use public services to run a business, you have to open your business to all comers who can afford to pay your prices and comply with your reasonable requirements. Which requirements can't condition the right to be served on race, religion, gender, etc.

He has all the right in the world in the privacy of his home if he's not charging money and therefore not in business to give massages to whomever he wants to. But once he opens a business and starts taking paying customers and enters the public marketplace, he has to live by the rules of the marketplace.

Why is that so hard for your to accept?

Or do you think all the grocery stores in your neighborhood should be allowed to refuse to sell to you because they don't like people named Tim?
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