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Conscience In Commerce: Conceptualizing Discrimination In Public Accommodations, Amy J. Sepinwall
Conscience In Commerce: Conceptualizing Discrimination In Public Accommodations, Amy J. Sepinwall
Connecticut Law Review
According to much current law and theory, a public accommodation that offers a good or service to one customer cannot refuse to provide that same good or service to another patron simply because of the latter’s identity. Thus, in many jurisdictions, reception hall owners must rent their spaces to both a Black Baptist Church and the Christian Identity KKK, wedding vendors must sell their goods to a marrying couple no matter the sex of the couple’s members, and foster parent agencies must serve same- and opposite-sex parenting duos alike. Call the principle underpinning this policy the “Equal Access” principle: The …