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In reply to the discussion: how are they going to know?? how are these business owners, etc, going to know who is gay? [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)wedding photographers, florists, bakeries, day cares, adoption agencies, etc.
Even, perhaps a bookstore.
When I owned my own new and used bookstore, I sorta figured that I had the absolute right to refuse to sell, stock, or order any material that I found objectionable. You could not, for example, come in to my bookstore and find a copy of "Atlas Shrugged".
One of my customers (and friends) asked me once. "Do you ever wonder why you don't have any Deepak Chopra?" Which I thought was a strange question. I didn't have any Deepak Chopra because I, as the person who selected what new books I would stock, had never ordered any of his books.
Not that it is an issue these days what with the online booksellers, but there probably were books that I would not even special order for people, although I only remember ONE case of that in my seven years of bad luck.