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Someone wrote a LTE comparing the case where a Colorado Springs resort cancelled the White Nationalist convention and the case where Colorado's anti-discrimination law forces a wedding cake business to sell to gays.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/27/should-businesses-be-able-to-deny-services-to-gays-white-nationalists/
The letter writer argues that both cases are the same and:
"Why should a business have the right to deny service to someone just because they do not agree with the business owners beliefs or values?"
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Of course the Colorado law doesn't specifically protect White Nationalists so the letter writer doesn't really understand the situation. If the letter writer was making a moral case, then should we be more subjective rather than objective?
The Gay wedding case involves love while the White Nationalists involve hate. Oh yes, they could argue that White Nationalists love themselves.
The problem boils down to the Bible which is the "official" arbitreur of morality. Interpretations of the Bible give it a definite bias against gays. Yet the Bible doesn't really allow anyone to disobey the golden rule. People wrongly pick and choose which part of the Bible to obey. Even Trump's love of Nazis demonstrates how he doesn't understand the basic idea: love trumps hate.
niyad
(113,306 posts)as for the assholes who wanted the cheyenne mountain resort, I am thankful to the resort, saved me at least one day of protests.
Baconator
(1,459 posts)... and the staff never got back to me.
Guess they were busy with neo-nazis.
niyad
(113,306 posts)Initech
(100,076 posts)People *WANT* gay weddings. People *DON'T* want Nazis and white supremacists. Difference? Gay weddings are good for the economy and spread messages of love and inclusion. Nazis and white supremacists spread messages of hate and ignorance. That is my best guess!
msongs
(67,406 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)The letter writer is free to lobby the General Assembly to add political affiliation to the state's anti-discrimination laws. Even then the resort might be protected in barring them due to the threat of conflict on their premises between white nationalists and counter protesters.