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It is just as wrong for a state to do it as for the Fed Govt.
The question wasn't whether it was "right" or "wrong".
The question was under what Constitutional authority do such laws exist. Federal laws exist as empowered by the Commerce Clause as it pertains to interstate commerce. State level Public Accommodation laws exist under the States power to regulate intrastate commerce.
That isn't a "right or "wrong", that is the source of the authority.
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Neither the Commerce Clause nor intrastate commerce laws give the government the constitutional right to tell a private business whom they must serve and what they must serve.
I understand why the courts ruled the way they did, it was not about the constitution but about forcing a change. None of that makes it even remotely constitutional.
The Constitution is supposed to limit the power of the government, not the freedoms of the citizens.