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You can refuse service to someone because you don't like the color of their shirt Interesting. Isn't this a loophole? If I am the baker in question, can I refu
by akudha 5y ago
You can refuse service to someone because you don't like the color of their shirt
Interesting. Isn't this a loophole? If I am the baker in question, can I refuse to bake the cake citing the shirt color instead of the real reason, which is that I am homophobic? (I am not, just asking a hypothetical question)
- theplague42 5y agoIMO if you have to lie, you've already ceded the moral high ground.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoHypothetically you'd have to prove in court that you had an established history of refusing people with that particularly shirt colour. That might be difficult, especially if you were lying.
- Falling3 5y agoI believe the burden of proof would be the other way around. It's not hard though to establish a pattern if all gay people are refused service. Even in a singular instance, if you are willing to help a customer after seeing their shirt, but wait until discovering their orientation to refuse helping them, that makes a pretty strong argument it's about the latter and not the former.
- heavyset_go 5y agoNo. Objective or broad rules or prerequisites for service/employment/etc that apply to everyone, but have a disparate impact on protected classes, are also illegal. If you kick everyone out of your store that wears dreadlocks, no matter what their race or protected class, and that has a disparate impact on people who belong to protected classes, that's also illegal. Similarly, if you refuse service to, say, immigrants because of the color of their shirts, but you serve everyone else no matter what color their shirts are, that's also illegal.