Interesting question. Worth exploring. 1) Dick's choosing not to carry a certain type of gun doesn't matter, because businesses can choose to sell or not sell any particular product. Doesn't treat anyone unequally.https://twitter.com/tomassidenfaden/status/968905556076281856 …
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That reasoning makes sense to me. If mutability is the standard, however, one could argue religion—or religiosity—is also mutable. Seems like a slippery slope.
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Religion isn't as clearly immutable as race or sexual orientation--you might be born into it, but you're not "born this way," you can choose to leave--but it's still put in that category as something we should respect as such. I buy that. It's enough of a core aspect of identity.
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Age is guaranteed to change, so that's clearly not immutable. As for religiosity, that strikes me as a choice. One can change at any time, and much easier than one can abandon a religion for another (or none). Religiosity is a sliding scale, rather than a clear category.
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It's also not a legally protected class.
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18-20 year olds? No. But in many states homosexuals are not a legally protected class either.
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True. But in the states where we get these "wedding cake" cases, they are.
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Fair enough. Though I took the question as philosophical, rather than legal, and tried to answer it as such.
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Pretty sure refusing service based on behavior is legal. And not just for guns. The customer could file a civil suit, claiming the business was being discriminatory. But whether they win or not would depend on specifics.
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Except you don't have liquor stores refusing to sell to people that aren't 25 yet. The age limit in that case is mandated by statute.
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That's true. There's law behind the minimum age for buying alcohol. How about this example: Some comedy clubs, strip clubs, and other venues are 21+, even though their services are legally available to 18-year-olds.
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