Boston Mayor Thom Menino may use political litmus test to grant a business license to Chick-fil-A, and that is unconstitutional. Liberals would be outraged if a Conservative Mayor did the same to a gay owned business. It is not the views and beliefs of the owners of a business, but whether the company obeys the laws that matter. People that don't agree with the owners simply don't patronize the business and if enough people boycott the business, it will close. Simple. Let the free market determine the success or failure of a business. I wonder if Menino "gets it".
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Boston mayor sends letter to Chick-fil-A: There's no place for you here « Hot Air
- I was angry to learn on the heels of your prejudiced statements about your search for a site to locate in Boston. There is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it.
- Sincerely, Thomas M. Menino Mayor, City of Boston
- There's no place for freedom to disagree on the Freedom Trail? I wonder if he knows that barring Chick-fil-A would be unconstitutional. There's just enough ambiguity in that letter to suggest that he does — he's telling them they're not welcome, not warning them that he'll challenge them legally — but who knows. Would any Boston liberals object if he did file suit to try to stop them, full in the knowledge that he's doomed to fail?
- [W]hich part of the First Amendment does Menino not understand? A business owner's political or religious beliefs should not be a test for the worthiness of his or her application for a business license.
- Ironically, Menino is citing the specific location along the Freedom Trail as a reason to block Chick-fil-A. A city in which business owners must pass a political litmus test is the antithesis of what the Freedom Trail represents. History will render judgment on the views of Chick-fil-A executives. City Hall doesn't have to.
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