hunter45
Regular Member
Just heard this awesome commercial for a CHL course in Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfYEQ48sPQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfYEQ48sPQ
Just heard this awesome commercial for a CHL course in Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfYEQ48sPQ
Is that legal?
Can you unashamedly deny services to a customer because of their religion or lack thereof?
I mean, people (including the government) do it all the time, but you can actually SAY that religion is the reason?
Freedom of Religion is a civil right, correct? Meaning it cannot legally be held against you unlike the Right to Bear Arms often is, correct?
Can he? Sure. Is it legal? Depends on how the courts would choose to interpret it(I've given up on looking for logic and reasoning in the courts. I'd have better odds guessing lottery numbers.) Given the precedence of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. and Runyon v. McCrary it would seem that, no, he can't legally do that. In reality, as you've said, it happens all the time and unless someone with an ax to grind cares to do something about it, he will probably do so successfully.
Edit: typos
Well then what ever happened to a business having the right to refuse service to anyone?
The civil right act.
just have to be careful about the reason you use to refuse service!
He had me up until "non-christian".
The stab at the Obama voters was funny though.
The man is a bigot, and, while I may find his bigotry personally distasteful, as long as he does not deny another citizen their rights or liberties, I would say how he choses to run his business is his concern. He is not stopping those he is bigoted against from receiving the necessary training. Quite frankly, I could not imagine any one of those whom he states he will not train, wanting to be trained by such a narrow minded fool of a man(my opinion of him, and just as legitimate as his opinion of others).