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As long as the people buying it know what they are getting, NO, it should not be shut down.
Except how do they know what they are "getting"? The one thing I've learned in running my own humble business is that there are a LOT of shysters, snakes and dishonest people out there. If anything, the government doesn't do ENOUGH to protect businesses from unscruplous business people.
The Kleins said they made Wedding Cakes. The Kleins invited the Cryer-Bowman's to their store. Just can't get worked up that they are being held to account because they probably did a hundred shitty things they weren't held to account for.
"Dignity" is not a right, especially when it comes from the ruin of someone else.
And again, no one has show me where in the constitution that a person loses their rights when they try to sell something.
businesses aren't people. Businesses don't have rights, they have obligations - to their customers, to the public, to the regulations that govern their business. American Business law is not based on Caveat Emptor but Caveat Vendor. The obligations on them were to know what the law was and follow it.
The Kleins are entitled to beleive whatever they want, but their business still has to follow the law. We've been explaining this to you for 20 pages now.
The rules of Kosher and Halal slaughter are pretty explicitly spelled out. IF the butchers are following those laws, people know what they are getting.
People own and run businesses, and people still have rights when they try to sell something.
And you know a smattering of latin, how bourgeois,