Should businesses be able to refuse service on religious grounds?

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490 Votes

Should businesses be able to refuse service on religious grounds?

64%

Yes, their choice Yes, their choice

36%

No, that's unfair No, that's unfair

64%

Yes, their choice

As a private business owner, you're allowed to make your own decisions about who you serve, and deal with the consequences affecting your bottom line accordingly. It may not be ... Show More

As a private business owner, you're allowed to make your own decisions about who you serve, and deal with the consequences affecting your bottom line accordingly. It may not be ethical to refuse service, but it should be legal. Show Less

11 Comments

Karen Servo

If you own a business in this country you should be able to refuse service to anyone at anytime for any reason!

Louise Baker

What happened to the basic law a business can refuse service to anyone? It is their business. If people do not like their policy’s, shop somewhere else!!

Pat McDonald

It's a free market and and we have a constitution that provides religious freedom. There are other choices available so if someone doesn't like their position go somewhere else to get the product.

Glynn Griffith

Their rights should NOT be violated for someone else.

Clerin Thomas

Absolutely. Why are their rights any different than anyone else?

Dave Voiles

Your individual freedoms don't end just because you own a business. The best way to fight a business you don't like is to not give them YOUR business. That's how a democracy works. Suck it up!

Tom Hamper

Their business. Government stay out.

Sam Ackerman

I have zero problem with a business not wanting to deal with a customer for ANY reason. It's up to them. However if they try to get others to follow their lead then I have a problem with it.

Michael Ratcliff

This group rejects biblical truths that we stand upon and believe. That is fine. So why should we be "forced" to accept their beliefs that we know to be wrong in God's eyes. Go to a different bakery.

Janet Rawlings

I see lots of restaurant signs that say they have the right to refuse service, why not this business?

Wanda Hancock

It is the freedom of this America that we can choose.

36%

No, that's unfair

No one should be refused a service based on religious beliefs. I think business and personal belief systems should be separated.

No one should be refused a service based on religious beliefs. I think business and personal belief systems should be separated. Show Less

8 Comments

Barbara Sherman

Should be fair. A particular group's money is just as good as anyone else. Bigotry should have no place in our society.

k san

Absolutely not. Citing "religious grounds" is just code for prejudice vs. certain groups. Such groups are guaranteed equal protection under the law, and that fed law trumps any law that says otherwise

Richard Dillard

When you are open to the public you should not be able to refuse service except for health reasons, re: no shirt no shoes etc.

Kathy Broderick-Davis

It's 2020, discrimination, of any kind, MUST STOP! It's disgusting how people/businesses hide behind their religion. Lest we forget - "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." - Matthew 22:39

Samuel Johnson

That is not religious grounds. That is discrimination.

Adam Ott

Its discrimination. If you are operating a business with a business license then you can't discriminate!

P Robbins

If a business is open to the public, it is open to the entire public. For example, religion has nothing to do with baking a cake. The baker was not invited to the wedding or asked to endorse it.

dapper dog

That's not just unfair it's illegal

sharder8

So one person's rights trump another person's rights? I thought everyone was created equal when it comes to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness? The truth is, there are always other businss' tha

Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

Asked by KTVZ

65 Votes

Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

60%

Yes Yes

40%

No No

60%

Yes

1 Comments

Dave

Looks like the ayes have it.

40%

No

2 Comments

Oakley Taylor

We need that money in our own country to help our schools, Medicare and education. Don’t you care about our neighbors and communities?

Dave

That money won't help our neighbors and schools when Iranian nukes start hitting our allies and eventually us! That is their goal as they have stated for years!!

Ka San

If it even needs saying, the Military Industrial Complex is the MOST bloated budget of the entire federal budget. If our current "completely-in-over-his-head" Def Sec + idiot prez hadn't started a completely unnecessary war, we would not have depleted stores of weapons and this be on nobody's radar!

Dave

Ka San, You sound like a radical liberal. Guess you'd rather have nukes start flying around in the middle east and then closer to home in a couple years.

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

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61 Votes

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

97%

Yes Yes

3%

No No

97%

Yes

1 Comment

Kate Coffey

As a tax payer and resident of Deschutes County I am tired of my tax dollars being used to clean up the filth the homeless people leave behind. If this is a deterrent for them living there then we won’t have to clean it up again. Thus saving tax payer dollars and the rocks are a better look.

3%

No

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KTVZ

Should businesses be able to refuse service on religious grounds?

64% Yes, their choice Yes, their choice

36% No, that's unfair No, that's unfair

64% Yes, their choice

36% No, that's unfair

Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

60% Yes Yes

40% No No

60% Yes

40% No

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

97% Yes Yes

3% No No

97% Yes

3% No

64%

Yes, their choice Yes, their choice

36%

No, that's unfair No, that's unfair

64%

Yes, their choice

36%

No, that's unfair

60%

Yes Yes

40%

No No

60%

Yes

40%

No

97%

Yes Yes

3%

No No

97%

Yes

3%

No