Don't you think

A bussiness owner who built their own bussiness and created everything themselfs should be able to say who they will and will not cater to?

Idk. I'm LGBTQ and I think this

Sorry if I'm being weird. I am sick.

Especially if it's the type of business that only caters to a certain demographic, like a hair salon that only caters to women, or a kids' group that only caters to minors. I once worked in a gym in a neighborhood that had a large Hasidic population, and the women could not work out with men. The gym set up classes three mornings a week with a female instructor, and men were not allowed to take (or teach) that class.

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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed A bussiness owner who built their own bussiness and created everything themselfs should be able to say who they will and will not cater to? Idk. I'm LGBTQ and I think this Sorry if I'm being weird. I am sick.

MD, I see both sides of this and have no answer to your question.

On one hand, as a former small business owner, I would not have wanted to be told who I had to serve as a customer. It never came up though. In part because I'm pretty open minded and make an effort to get along with people.

On the flip side, if businesses refuse to serve certain people it opens the door to discrimination. Do we want to return to the days of refusing to serve someone because of their skin color, national origin, religion, orientation?

My thoughts on this. Yes they should have the right to refuse custom - based on behaviour of that customer, but not who that customer is, their appearance etc. To clarify I mean if someone is rude or abusive they shouldn’t assume they’ll be welcome in a business. This is the law over here, I’m not sure about the US?

Discombobulated - if you want a gay wedding cake or website, nowadays you need to find someone who is not against gays.

To me it would be like the baker saying, oh wait, your parents are italian? Get out of my shop.

Didnt marie antoinette say, let them eat cake?

I think at least in theory that yes, that they can cater to whomever they'd like to, with a few caveats.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "cater to." Because if it means outright refusing certain customers, I don't think that's right, under certain conditions. If the customer is being abusive or something like that, it's a different story.

But if it means that the business just doesn't "like" certain people or certain groups or subgroups of people, I don't think that's really ok.

Of course, the business has the right to do this under the law in the U.S., it's just that I think it's morally wrong. There's a difference between the law and morality. The law is much more permissive.