Independent contractors have a near total right to discriminate. Just as every American is free to deny their services to a prospective employer for any reason, even if it’s because of race of your boss.
Anyway, I’m fine with all bigotry in the private sector going away. Let’s have minority owned businesses suing white professionals who won’t work for them.
Well that’s sort of true. Anyone who wants employment and went to Oral Roberts or Liberty university WON’T get a call back from me. 
You’re forgetting that if your examples of contractors acted in such a way and were found out, the victims have a right to sue.
Not clear at all what you are saying, but is seems to be more nonsense:
Absolutely. I have no problem with that. The courts are the best venue for balancing conflicting rights claims.
What I’m saying is that the civil rights laws that apply to corporations do not apply the same way to workers who are in business for themselves. Just as you can deny your services to an employer for any reason you choose, an independent contractor can also pick and choose their clients for any reason.
Please provide the legal definition of “committing a sin” please ?
Well Rand Rover’s not been seen in a while, but if he was he’d tell you aaaaall about the pro bono work he’s morally outraged to have to do on account of being a self-involved twat.
On the upside, with social media exposure bigoted businesses will get outed quite promptly, so they can be boycotted just as promptly. Put their miserable asses out of business fast. Then listen to their cries of “Discrimination!”
Hypocritical bastards, the whole lot of them.
Another stupid point, and we are in the same day still. 
And in general I can see in the places that could happen that then the independent contractors that are not discriminating get more work; your concern trolling is really pathetic, and a third stupid idea, keep it up and then we can have our quota made for the year.
Oh boy, adaher is back in this thread, where is my shovel? Could someone please buy him an economy-sized pack of Depends?
That’s the whole point. That’s up to the individual. Individuals may not be forced to violate their religion, to commit a sin in their view, without a compelling government interest to justify it.
Sure. Six to twelve months for a trial that screws up wedding plans, the contractor’s future employment, totally unnecessary court fees for both contractor & victim’of religious bullshit where your contractor WILL LOSE his business…
Wow. Better idea: let’s make a rule where we can make that kind of baseless, religious, and tactless behavior illegal. Save the courts for hard crimes. No?
For many businesses, this is true and it’s the appropriate way to handle things. Well, I don’t know about appropriate, but it’s consistent with the 1st amendment.
However, it won’t affect businesses that legitimately cater to people of faith.
You know what screws up wedding plans? Hiring a wedding planner who doesn’t want to do your wedding. There’s a reason that anti-discrimination laws don’t apply to ALL cases. One of those being there are many times when you really, really, want to avoid forcing someone who doesn’t want to associate with you to do so. The reason we don’t force attorneys to take cases is because you’ll lose if they don’t want the case. But hey, let’s change the laws so that independent contractors can’t refuse anyone who can pay.
No. Only the most powerful existence in the universe will effect such businesses:
The almighty dollar.
There actually are churches that teach that black people suffer from the Mark of Cain and the Curse of Canaan. Are you really sure you want to restore Jim Crow laws under the pretense of “religious freedom?”
(Meanwhile, I’m denied my right, as a worshipper of Kali, to go out and murder strangers alongside the road. Pure discrimination!)
If it was just about the dollar, they’d already be catering to the general public rather than just Christians, or Muslims, or Jews.
It’s mainly outsiders who want to make the dollar supreme, as in if you try to make a dollar, you lose your 1st amendment rights. That’s a very strange and ignorant concept.
Civil rights laws apply to public accomodations. You cannot be denied service at a public establishment because of your race, sex, religion, disability, etc. The rules for independent contractors are different. If they come to your house, or another place of your choosing, they have the right to decide not to come for any reason or no reason.
If someone refuses to provide services to a company because that company is minority-owned, then, yes, that needs to be settled by an equal opportunity lawsuit.
Say you’re a minority, and you run a car parts shop, and I’m a sign painter, and I refuse to paint the logo on your wall, because you’re a minority. That’s improper, and worthy of a lawsuit.
Exactly the same as the wedding planner who refuses to work for the gay couple.
Seems like you’re actually on our side here.