GOP Lawmaker Thinks Businesses Ought To Be Able To Deny Service To Black People

TOM KLUDT – MARCH 17, 2014, 11:30 AM EDT

A Republican lawmaker in South Dakota thinks there's no need for the government to meddle in the private sector, even if a business were to turn away black customers.

Here's Phil Jensen, a GOP state senator and free market absolutist, in his own words.

"If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve blacks, and guess what? In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them," Jensen told the Rapid City Journal in a story that suggested he just might be the crimson red state's "most conservative lawmaker."

In this year's legislative session, Jensen offered up a bill that was even more extreme than the legislation in Arizona that would have given businesses an opening to discriminate against LGBT customers.

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