> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." The civil rights movement an

> Refusing to serve a customer when you disagree with that customer's goal is pretty far from being a "moral arbiter for society." The civil rights movement and suffrage prove this is patently untrue. The biggest difference is that gender, religion and ethnicity are easy things to point out, while ideologic belief systems are tricky. Where do you draw the line on what grounds a business can refuse service? Should I be able to refuse service to republicans? How about amputees? I hate the color yellow, so I'm not going to sell to anyone with an outfit on that has that color. I live in Los Angeles, where it's still plenty common to see signs saying "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service" - which, btw, is not aimed at scantily clad beach goers but targets the poor and homeless population. Same with silly dress codes around baggy pants and hats - all clear examples of bullshit rules intended to single out an "undesirable" customer. Except it's not race/religions/gender so it's cool, right? I'm in the camp that the reasons businesses should have to refuse service should be a whitelist, not a blacklist.