Letter: Right to refuse service goes both ways
(Jacquelyn Martin | The Associated Press) In this June 14, 2018 file photo, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders smiles as she wishes President Donald Trump a happy birthday, during the daily briefing, in the Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Sanders acknowledges in a tweet that she was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant Friday night, June 22. Sanders said she was told by the owner of The Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, that she had to "leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left." Sanders' treatment at the restaurant has created a social media commotion with people on both sides weighing in to provide their critique of the incident.
Now that his daughter has been refused service at a restaurant because of moral reasons, Mike Huckabee suddenly just wants everyone to be treated fairly. I would bet my bottom dollar that he didn’t feel that way when a same-sex couple was denied a wedding cake because of the same reason.
Be careful what you wish for. Allowing people who are in business to serve the public the right to refuse service to someone they don’t agree with is a slippery slope. It will surely come back to bite you.
Mary Lehman, Cottonwood Heights
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