PC & The ACLU

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<< A Democratic deli owner in Chicago banned two customers because he says he got tired of hearing about their Republican beliefs. &quot;I stood here and bit my lip while I've heard every view they've wanted to spout at me over the last two weeks,&quot; said co-owner Bill Wood. &quot;I can't leave my business and go away from them, so I guess the solution to that is to ask them not to come back in here.&quot; The customers said they can't recall saying anything harsher than, &quot;I hope Bush wins.&quot; The ACLU, of course, said the deli owner is within his rights. &quot;In a private setting, being a Republican does not protect you from discrimination under state or federal law,&quot; said American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Ed Yohnka. >>




<< The Newton County, Ga., school board voted last week to remove references to Christmas from its Web site and school calendars beginning next year.

The move ? approved by a vote of 4-1 ? came under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, which said such wording constituted &quot;an endorsement of a particular religion,&quot; reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. From now on, the Christmas holidays will be referred to simply as the &quot;semester break&quot; by the school system. >>

 

[UG]

Works for me:

A private business owner has the right to refuse service to anyone.

Government funded and administered school systems don't have the right to give preferential treatment to any particular religion, or any religion at all.

I don't see a problem here.

 

[BoberFett]

<< A private business owner has the right to refuse service to anyone. >>

&quot;Has&quot; or &quot;should have&quot;? If you refuse to serve blacks or gays, you can bet you'll have a lawsuit on your hands before you know what's going on. You're only wrong if you're a white conservative male.

 

[Xede]

Having mentions of &quot;Christmas&quot; on your school calendar is neither preferential nor discriminatory, but an acknowledgement of the fact that Christmas is a major holiday celebrated by a large majority of Americans and a part of our American culture. Pretending Christmas doesn't exist and renaming it a &quot;semester break&quot; is just a silly PC game. I'm sorry that that school board bowed in to this ACLU crap.