> It seems we ought to either believe companies are legally required to provide their service to all comers or they're not. Both of those positions are complet

> It seems we ought to either believe companies are legally required to provide their service to all comers or they're not. Both of those positions are completely unworkable. If businesses may always select which people to serve, you can end up with de facto racial segregation. We know what that looks like. The illegality of this sort of discrimination by businesses is a direct outgrowth of that historical moment. If businesses may never select which people to serve, you'll end up with protesters clogging everything from the meat aisle at Wal-Mart to the local church's bible group. So we end up constantly revisiting how to resolve this fundamental tension between the owner's right to free speech and the customer's right to equal protection. The line today, as I understand it, is that businesses may discriminate against people for what they say or believe, but not for explicitly enumerated aspects of their person (such as race, sex, age, and now(?) sexual orientation).