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by lootsauce 1088 days ago
“Consistent with the First Amendment, the Nation’s answer is tolerance, not coercion. The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands.”
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You can think and speak anything you want. But when you put an advertisement in the newspaper that you provide services and then you refuse to provide those services because of who somebody is, and who somebody is is a protected class... Well, up until recently, that was pretty well understood to be illegal.