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BKH70041

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21. That's what I didn't get

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 12:18 PM

Feb 2014

The big retailers, eateries. etc.. aren't going to care; they just want your money.

Smaller retailers might decide to do so, but they can do that now. As a business owner, I don't have to do business with anyone of whom I don't want to do business. The burden of proof is on the individual who would come to my place of business and claim I was being discriminatory. Well good luck with that. I didn't refuse your business because you were A/B/C/D.. I did it because you were being disruptive/acting suspicious/using abusive language/didn't fit the criteria of my type of clientele, etc... "No, I wasn't and you're lying." Yeah, you were.

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how are they going to know?? how are these business owners, etc, going to know who is gay? [View all] niyad Feb 2014 OP

true it would have to be they think it is self enforcing treestar Feb 2014 #1

"Proof of heterosexuality" certificates? "Are you gay" questionaires? Zambero Feb 2014 #2

can you just hear a geoge carlin riff on this insanity? niyad Feb 2014 #3

I can see it now--an entire new job-creating industry devoted to producing the triangles, niyad Feb 2014 #5

Not much different than the yellow stars in Germany during WWII. Skidmore Feb 2014 #35

I think this is all ginned up because of the certainty that MineralMan Feb 2014 #4

the fact that they feel comfortable doing this--and getting more and more vocal about their hatred, niyad Feb 2014 #7

It worries me, too. Somehow, though, I feel like MineralMan Feb 2014 #8

Excellent! FLyellowdog Feb 2014 #38

I have met people who had what I perceived were LGBT stereotypes... LynneSin Feb 2014 #6

And many many people are not 100% straight or 100% gay, it's not a light switch! Many RKP5637 Feb 2014 #11

I think in general everyone is bisexual - whether one defines themself as gay or straight LynneSin Feb 2014 #22

And that, is a very mature way of looking at all of this! RKP5637 Feb 2014 #25

Kyrsten Sinema is the Representative from AZ ChazII Feb 2014 #32

Yeah, the "gaydar"... pipi_k Feb 2014 #23

many businesses are serving couples hfojvt Feb 2014 #37

Can tattoos on the forehead be the next step? And, this assumes people are 100% straight or RKP5637 Feb 2014 #9

I keep thinking of "the handmaid's tale". for some reason, az came to mind while I was reading it niyad Feb 2014 #10

God will tell them? GAYDAR? Adrahil Feb 2014 #12

Yes, I saw a pink triangle over their head as they walked into my store, it was a vision RKP5637 Feb 2014 #27

I was wondering the same thing. MadrasT Feb 2014 #13

there was an episode of "all in the family" where there were two guys, one of whom was big, strong, niyad Feb 2014 #17

Yep, and that's what happens when the populace elects 7th graders into political office! And, RKP5637 Feb 2014 #28

I think all LGBTs and their allies theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #14

oh, I like that!! where can I order them?? niyad Feb 2014 #18

Isn't there an app for that? jsr Feb 2014 #15

if not today--by tomorrow, surely! niyad Feb 2014 #20

Found one: jsr Feb 2014 #26

now all I need is a smart phone! niyad Feb 2014 #36

How about RF chips and scanners? Coyotl Feb 2014 #16

They can't define it, but they know it when they see it....... socialist_n_TN Feb 2014 #19

That's what I didn't get BKH70041 Feb 2014 #21

I actually went out to Arizona to visit my best friend a while back. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2014 #24

Exactly. madaboutharry Feb 2014 #29

How are LGBTQ people gonna know who is homophobic? hfojvt Feb 2014 #30

Because it's a public accommodation issue. Gormy Cuss Feb 2014 #33

so if, for example, hfojvt Feb 2014 #39

The market can't solve the problem when the law ignores it. Gormy Cuss Feb 2014 #40

I agree BKH70041 Feb 2014 #42

It covers way more than gay people Bandit Feb 2014 #31

This is of course another hole in thier "thinking process" geckosfeet Feb 2014 #34

I will not set foot in az today because of their persecution of mexicians. Sunlei Feb 2014 #41

. . niyad Feb 2014 #43