It is NOT. I can't believe this is a point of contention. No fruitful discussion possible if we don't agree that 2 and 2 is 4...
It is certainly wrong, but should not be illegal. A distressingly large number of things fall into that category, and people lacking basic human decency is probably the biggest example. A private business is just that: Private; it remains the property of the owner to operate at his discretion provided he is not actively harming anyone else. No shoes, no shirt, no crucifix, no service. The Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals, country clubs can bar racial minorites etc. etc. and the proper response to that is to organize a boycott and make a media event of it. You cannot make people stop being bigoted bastards, even with a law; you CAN make it so costly for them to BEHAVE like bigoted bastards that they either voluntarily keep their filthy little secret to themselves or go out of business.
I do not know the specifics, but understand the rules are slightly different for companies whose business by nature requires large scale public access; they cannot pick and choose to grant that access to some members of the public but not others, and that is fair. I must say I am not sure how womens only (or mens only) gyms are consistent with that.
Honorbound and honored to be Bonded to Mahtaliel Sedai
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Santorum is #2 in Iowa
04/01/2012 01:24:13 PM
- 1737 Views
would you stop using that word? It is gross. *NM*
04/01/2012 01:48:45 PM
- 566 Views
What's your word for it? *NM*
04/01/2012 03:43:44 PM
- 522 Views
Well, there's nothing wrong with Santoruming in the privacy of one's home.
04/01/2012 02:35:56 PM
- 1055 Views
yeah that it so funny
04/01/2012 03:05:59 PM
- 924 Views
he kind of brought it on himself by being so decidedly anti-gay that it pissed lots of people off
04/01/2012 04:36:39 PM
- 967 Views
maybe the gays brought all the gay bashing on themselves
05/01/2012 03:18:15 PM
- 1161 Views
Civility is a social contract
05/01/2012 04:39:46 PM
- 930 Views
so now that the gays have broken that contract they are fair game?
05/01/2012 06:37:52 PM
- 681 Views
Re: so now that the gays have broken that contract they are fair game?
06/01/2012 05:29:49 PM
- 940 Views
So is it OK if just insult the gays who are politically active and push their agenda?
06/01/2012 06:16:30 PM
- 967 Views
If you call them out by name for hypocrisy, then sure.
10/01/2012 05:22:34 PM
- 991 Views
yes but once you have thrown out all civil decency why start getting nuanced?
11/01/2012 09:09:13 PM
- 906 Views
Actually, your response was expected
04/01/2012 10:08:33 PM
- 1021 Views
do you still pretend that it isn't political?
05/01/2012 03:14:25 PM
- 856 Views
I'm sorry
05/01/2012 03:52:57 PM
- 962 Views
funny how it always woks out that way
05/01/2012 06:44:55 PM
- 766 Views
Believe what you will, but my wok skills are poor
05/01/2012 07:32:17 PM
- 928 Views
You should ask one of the gays to help you. I hear the gays are good at cooking. *NM*
06/01/2012 01:54:21 AM
- 611 Views
Santorum is a man who believes you must compare homosexual love to bestiality and pedophilia
05/01/2012 04:42:26 AM
- 933 Views
and Savage is a Man who believes that vulgar personal attacks
05/01/2012 03:12:42 PM
- 1080 Views
Why should a person tolerate intolerance? (Serious question.) *NM*
05/01/2012 08:46:05 PM
- 642 Views
The question boils down to why should someone tolerate what they think is wrong.
05/01/2012 10:53:40 PM
- 898 Views
and when santorum tells you that your lifestyle is worse than pedophilia and bestiality?
06/01/2012 03:34:52 AM
- 852 Views
To be fair...
06/01/2012 05:32:31 AM
- 996 Views
You are correct
06/01/2012 01:21:18 PM
- 1050 Views
Then it seems like it's a problem of definitions more than anything else.
06/01/2012 09:48:49 PM
- 957 Views
Following the logic to its bitter end. Why do I do this to myself???
06/01/2012 10:14:01 PM
- 1019 Views
Those are really not equivalent.
06/01/2012 04:18:37 PM
- 813 Views
Re: Those are really not equivalent.
06/01/2012 10:27:11 PM
- 944 Views
I don't like your definition of tolerance and you're not consistent with it anyway.
07/01/2012 01:49:05 AM
- 979 Views
In case you were curious, I really disagree with your understanding of tolerance. *NM*
09/01/2012 08:24:45 PM
- 597 Views
So at this point, most of the candidates had a moment at the top. Kind of awesome.
05/01/2012 11:22:50 PM
- 921 Views
that is why Perry is staying in the race
06/01/2012 06:20:54 PM
- 891 Views
He should stay, they should all stay. Trump should get back into it and Palin should jump in too.
06/01/2012 07:00:52 PM
- 830 Views
It would be the joke of the year if Huntsman got a turn.
06/01/2012 10:59:36 PM
- 844 Views
Is he a bigger long shot than Santorum, though? Gingrich? Bachman? CAIN!?
07/01/2012 01:34:47 AM
- 944 Views
Yes, for the reason you state.
07/01/2012 03:04:39 PM
- 903 Views
I really do not agree.
09/01/2012 08:51:46 PM
- 931 Views
Like I said, check Obamas numbers any time in the last year and a half.
10/01/2012 11:41:47 AM
- 813 Views
More like everyone has had a moment running second to Romney.
07/01/2012 01:59:25 PM
- 827 Views
It's not a foregone conclusion yet.
07/01/2012 04:03:51 PM
- 942 Views
It kinda is; Paul cannot even win a majority of Republicans, let alone the country.
07/01/2012 09:09:07 PM
- 916 Views
Ironically, Paul has a better chance of winning the general election than the republican primary.
07/01/2012 10:14:07 PM
- 1003 Views
What's the likelihood of Paul running as an independent/3rd party if he doesn't get the GOP nod? *NM*
07/01/2012 10:21:23 PM
- 343 Views
Not very high, I think. He didn't try it last time either, and it would hand Obama the election. *NM*
08/01/2012 01:29:01 AM
- 462 Views
many states have laws that you cannot run 3rd party after being on the ballot for a party primary
08/01/2012 06:12:36 AM
- 1040 Views
Yes, he and Romney have that in common, but Pauls positions are (mostly) sincere.
10/01/2012 03:46:04 PM
- 1016 Views
give up the hope it is nothing more than a pipe dream
09/01/2012 02:57:03 PM
- 948 Views
All of the republican candidates are pipe dreams.
09/01/2012 08:56:57 PM
- 752 Views
I find Ron Paul absolutely infuriating.
09/01/2012 10:44:09 PM
- 1018 Views
Um...
10/01/2012 03:54:53 PM
- 849 Views
So segregation when done by private businesses is ok?
11/01/2012 02:20:32 PM
- 1029 Views
Define "OK."
11/01/2012 08:29:09 PM
- 910 Views
Paul is an equal opportunity infuriator, to borrow Vivien's word.
09/01/2012 10:56:57 PM
- 915 Views
The original santorum 2003 interview for those who want to know
07/01/2012 05:32:00 AM
- 1127 Views
And here is the 2002 op ed where he blamed liberalism causing the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal
07/01/2012 05:36:39 AM
- 942 Views