>>I have one additional question.
>>Suppose you run a company that builds websites. You are known in the industry and you have an established brand. When people see you websites, they say, "wow, that must be a Lutz Scheffler website".
>>Suppose a group comes along whose actions you detest. It could be a supremacist group or some other group that practices discrimination.
>>They want you to build a website for them. You refuse, stating that you don't want your brand associated with their practices.
>>Should you be subject to civil and even criminal penalties for refusing to accommodate them?
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>Don't go that far. My business involves similar problems and I have rejected contracts because I dislike the company or the project.
>You mix up thinks. I'm not on retail. I can do the terms of my business as I like. Somebody on retail or on a restaurant adresses general public, so he must serve everybody.
>I do not. A retailer might have a stand terms and conditions, I have not. And there are good reasons to linit standard t&c.
>One would need to have a special contract with me - I can make it unbearable. Just the way a bank calculates your mortage.
>Because I'm free on my contracts, on the pricing and on the terms.

Catering at an event mostly is NOT retail like selling food in a shop but usually handled by special contract as well. When you state: "I can make it unbearable" you exercise your own terms, but you do it in a PC way. Sorry, the shop owner is [more honest|too dumb to avoid that way|both], but the wish to avoid contract is the same, even if for different personal grounds.