Quote:
Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
If I owned a conference centre for instance I would certainly want to be able to refuse the BNP the right to hold a rally there.
Looking at it from the opposite point of view - if I were being discriminated against I would rather know up front "we don't want your sort here" than to be grudgingly permitted access and served by someone who clearly resented doing so. I'd much rather be somewhere I felt welcome.
|
So, Willow, you also would want to repeal the existing discrimination laws so that people are free to refuse service, accommodation or jobs to others purely on the basis of race, gender or sexual orientation? Don't you think it would be major step backwards? How would you feel if you applied for a vacancy and they told you, "Sorry, you're well-qualified to do the job, but we don't want a woman." Would you walk away, contented, thinking, "Well, at least I know where I stand."
And if you'd want to refuse the right of the BNP to hold a conference, why do you defend the anti-gay beliefs of the Catholic church? Surely, both are based on irrational prejudice, or do you, as Gayle appears to, think that homophobia somehow isn't quite as bad as racism?