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Originally Posted by CFrance
But... it certainly wasn't okay for people back in the day to refuse to serve/provide services for African Americans because they were black. Live and let live was not right back then. It allowed discrimination to thrive. There was a lot of work and protests and lawsuits on their part to get this changed.
Maybe the reasons for the lawsuits now are the same--to establish and protect rights, define them through the law.
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I don't think it was against anyone's religion to provide service to blacks. But I think homosexuality is somewhat different.