• Bazzatron@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I mean - there are protected classes, right? You can’t say “no whites” or “no Jews”, I’m not a religious man - but where’s the line between a political ideology and a religious one?

    Or am I totally mistaken and this is completely permitted in the states?

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      1 year ago

      That kind of discrimination is generally illegal, even after the recent supreme court case.

      What the ruling says is that some kinds of business, such as designing a website, decorating a cake, or writing a song, for example, are considered speech. In those cases the right of the designer/decorator/songwriter to control their speech takes precedence.

      However, this doesn’t mean you can kick someone out of your restaurant for being Jewish or refuse to make a non-marriage related website because a client is gay. It’s only cases where speech is involved.

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      1 year ago

      The difference is that you can’t choose your skin color, but you can’t choose your beliefs in a different way.