>>You are on that beyond reasoning. If you think that those religious idiots have the right to do what they like anybody else deserves the right to ruin them. The job keeper have done it as a explicit demonstration.
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>Lutz, I must agree with the others. A shop/business owner should be allowed to serve whoever they want to or not, as the case may be. Its none of my business to dictate that to a business owner - his choice, his problem. The community can choose to go there or not and that is, in turn, their choice. If the business goes out of business, too bad, poor business choice. No one should harass the business, and certainly not using illegal means, and in the same way the business should not harass the consumers for their choices to use the business or not as the case may be.
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I have no idea what UK law is on this, but in the US, when you operate a business that's considered a "public accommodation," discrimination based on a whole list of things (race, sex, religion, etc.) is prohibited. You've opened your doors to the public, and while you can demand certain behavior ("shirt and shoes required," for example), you can't say "sorry, we don't serve women here" or "sorry, no Jews."

Tamar