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forcing private businesses to deal with whom they do not want to deal with is too much government power in my view. If you assault or menace or abuse someone, there are already laws that punish such behavior. If a Hasidic Jewish business doesn't want to trade with someone who is a Nazi sympathizer, so be it
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Do guys have the right to force Christians to perform acts their religious beliefs proscribe? Works both ways.
OK let's go over some basics about religion and commerce. Just because you are religious doesn't give you some sort of moral high ground that makes you exempt from adhering to the rules contained in a license to operate a business which almost every town requires of merchants selling in the public domain and one of those rules is that you sell to the public irrespective of their color, size, sex, religion, femininity or masculinity. Getting that license says you sell to the public ........ all of the public. You don't get to pick and choose. The city provides merchants with certain benefits, assurances and protections in exchange you behave like a merchant and serve everyone If you don't want to serve some minority, you go private, sell from your home and put a sign out letting people know that you don't serve certain people.
No guys don't have the right to force anyone to perform acts against their religious beliefs. Selling merchandise or a service isn't performing a act against any religion proven by the fact that you are selling in the first place. Whom you serve has nothing to do with religion any more than it has to do with color, sex, national origin, religion, age , profession et al. Baking cakes, making cards, arranging flowers, taking pictures, running a motel, wiring a house, teaching, doctoring are not acts against any religion.
As for Hasidic Jews, most of them are diamond sellers or cutters and shrewd business people. Trust me, they'd sell a diamond to anyone, even Hitler.
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