Oklahoma restaurant refuses to serve gays, welfare recipients and the disabled

I'm torn. On one hand, I want the place to be burned to the ground.

On the other, I don't like Big Brother saying I have to associated with folks I don't want to. If he doesn't want a black man's money, why should he be forced to accept it?

I mean, if I opened a bar and said I wouldn't allow in other men, or other white people, would I and should I be prosecuted?

I lean toward yes, he should be forced to serve anyone willing to pay but I can't just dive in 100 percent.

Maybe the slippery slope is, OK, he let's them in but gives this shitty food and shitty service. Is he then liable for a lawsuit?

 

If a 10-year-old kid walks into a bar and wants a beer, should the owner be allowed to serve him, since, after all, it's his bar?

 

Indeed. Baron undoubtedly makes the Mount Rushmore of bad analogizers. He is the undiputed bad analogy king of this board.

 

In other words, you have nothing.

What, pray tell, is so flawed about my analogy? Mark's point is that a business owner should be able to serve or not serve whomever he wants because of ... FREEDOM! My point is that there are certain laws that restrict freedom because those laws are designed to protect those who are vulnerable to being mistreated.

 

Oklahoma is weak sauce. Here's Kansas, bringing the (red) heat:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/02/13/kansas_anti_gay_segregation_bill_is_an_abomination.html

 

Drinking age laws are not merely a restriction upon service by a private commercial business. If a kid has a drink in the privacy of his own home he is breaking the law, regardless of whether it involves a commercial business at all, regardless of whether anyone else gave him that drink. It is just a different thing than the issue of service discrimination to legal aged consumers.

 

In Texas it is legal for a minor to drink if he is accompanied by a parent or guardian. That's how Johnny Football got off the hook, remember?

 

I don't think Texas is the only state where that is true.