Well, it's not up to the two of us, but yeah - that's the what the Constitution says.
The notion that Constitutional rights require a business, or anyone else for that matter, to cater to your wishes is nonsense. Freedom of Speech, for example, doesn't require newspapers or websites to publish my bloviating. The Second Amendment doesn't demand that gun companies provide me with a gun. And Freedom of Religion doesn't require that anyone accommodate my religious practices. In all these cases, the right in question just means the federal government can't pass laws limiting said freedom: the feds can't silence speech they don't like, they can't ban guns and they can't regulate religion. But it doesn't mean that anyone must empower you to use these rights, or otherwise accommodate your ambitions.
Ahh ok, so what you’re saying then is, businesses can discriminate. If a businesss doesn’t have to make accommodations for any protected rights then:
Boss: “sorry bill, but, I had to fire john yesterday because he is about to go into surgery and I can’t afford to lose the production, so, until I can hire someone to replace him, I need you to cancel your honeymoon and fill in.
Tina, hey, I’m going to have to lower your pay, until your production can equal what Dave and Alex can produce, I just can’t see you getting the same pay as them.
Kal and mike, I know you wanted time off to celebrate Juneteenth, but I need you here, so, I can’t approve you taking a day off for that. Same with you, Paul, you were wanting to take some time off to attend some pride events, unfortunately, im not going to be able to approve that, no flexibility.
Also Paul, we’re going to need you to stop using the women’s bathroom, some of the women are complaining, so you’ll have to use the men’s bathroom from now on.
Ravi, having you stop production in order to pray 5 times a day for 10 minutes each is going to have to stop, it’s not fair to anyone else that you can take a break throughout the day.
Greg and Dave, someone saw you two have been holding hands and giving each other small kisses in areas where others can see, they complained about the public display of affection, so, I’ll need you to stop doing that.
Jaya, our policy does not allow people to wear any kind of hat while inside and on the production floor, so I’ll need you to not wear your hijab while in the production area.
Kara, I see you are getting along in your pregnancy, just let me know when you are going to need to start missing work so I can let you go and hire someone to replace you so production doesn’t suffer.
George, there has been some complaints about you wearing blm attire. Not everyone agrees with how they spread their message, so I’ll need you to stop wearing anything with blm on it. In fact, for everyone, political slogans, logos…basicallly, any political attire and such, is a divisive thing, so, from now on, no political attire will be allowed, this includes any bumper stickers or window stickers on your vehicles, will not be allowed. If it’s on this property, it will be forbidden. This includes any discussion of politics, it will not be allowed here”.
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Hmm, who else can I offend with our ability to not have to make accommodations for people’s rights.
In fact, with some of those, one could argue that a business can refuse to hire women, if they can’t equal production, or if they have plans of starting a family. Why should he hire them if they are going to end up having to miss work at some point due to having a baby.
What about trans people? If they require special accommodations, like using the bathroom of their chosen gender, well, that’s an accommodation, so, he can just not hire trans people.
I know all of my examples are not perfect, but you get the point. If we are saying businesses don’t have to make accommodations for people’s cotus rights, then, that could open a whole can of worms for other people’s rights.
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