I believe businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone, except they can not do so based solely on someone’s race or religion.
I can’t kick you out for being an Evangelical Christian, but if you stand up and start preaching in the middle of my restaurant, and other patrons complain, yes, I CAN kick you out.
Several African American people have tried to sue Denny’s for kicking them out “for being black” but each time, Denny’s has won the case saying that the customers were creating some sort of scene at the restaurant and were kicked out because of that. I don’t think anyone has won against Denny’s yet, and they still post the “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” on their walls. Edited to add: I know someone who was kicked out of a Denny’s because he had too many piercings and tattoos and it disturbed other customers. Yes, it was discrimination, but not racial, gender or religious discrimination so it was OK.
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The Indiana Religious Freedom Act is a preempted strike. With gay marriages being legalized, Evangelicals see that there is a strong possibility that sexual orientation will have the same protected status that gender, race, religion or (dis)ability is.
This law is BS. Either a status is protected or it’s not. You can’t say “You have these rights… unless people don’t want to give them to you.”