Poll: Majority of Americans Say Businesses Must Serve Gay Patrons
Source: Bloomberg
[b[Not even religious beliefs should interfere, 58 percent of voters tell Quinnipiac.
Apr 27, 2015 7:30 AM EDT
A majority of American voters say businesses should not be allowed to refuse services to gays and lesbians, even on the basis of religious beliefs, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.
Coming a day before the Supreme Court hears marriage-equality arguments that could lead to nationwide legalization, the poll also found a majority of voters say same-sex marriage should be legal.
Asked about businesses' right to refuse service, without mentioning religion, the poll found majorities of Democrats (88 percent) and Republicans (50 percent) in agreement that the practice should not be allowed. Overall, 69 percent of voters said they opposed it.
But when asked their view if the business says homosexuality violates its owners' religious beliefs, the parties diverged. Fifty-six percent of Republicans said the business should be allowed to refuse service in that case. Seventy-nine percent of Democrats, and 58 percent of voters overall, disagreed.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-27/poll-majority-of-americans-say-businesses-must-serve-gay-patrons
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Private clubs (like golf courses) CAN discriminate legally, apparently.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)If they turn business away, make them prove they "worship" on a VERY regular basis and that they have been doing it for a lifetime.
Can't turn your "religion" on or off at will! Sorry...nope!
appalachiablue
(41,143 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Selma, Alabama, 1953.
GarColga
(124 posts)If you Google "divine institution of slavery" you can find many many examples of 19th century Christian ministers going on at length about how slavery is ordained by god and the scriptures. These people were obviously wrong, and it's equally obvious that what inspired these ministers, these "men of god", wasn't the christian god, but ordinary cultural prejudice. Their descendants today are equally wrong in their opposition to equal rights for gays, and the "scriptural" support for such an idea is even slimmer than that supporting slavery. They can protest all they want but it is obvious that their "religious beliefs" are really ordinary, everyday, ignorant prejudice.