# The real problem with gay people is simply a lack of neighborliness ... and niceness

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 5, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892 "2014-03-05T01:55:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/181 "2014-03-08T05:31:40Z")

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Does any of these businesses have a sign in their place of business, easily readable by potential customers, that reads “We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone”? I’ve never seen a place closed down because they displayed such a notice…

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/182 "2014-03-08T06:54:20Z")

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And such signs are not a problem. They’re notifications of the right of storekeepers to kick out someone who is violent, or rude, or smelly, or who has come in to try to sell office supplies, or who has come in to try to beg, or has come in to try to proselytize.

Those activities don’t fall under the protected classes, and shopkeepers have every right to refuse to provide service.

Can there really be anyone reading this thread who doesn’t actually know this already? I don’t like to play the, “Really?” card, but, c’mon, really?

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/183 "2014-03-08T09:11:23Z")

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> [@Melchior](#):
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> Marriage customs date from prehistory.

You don’t realize how little that narrows it down, do you?

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/184 "2014-03-08T09:14:21Z")

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Are you speaking from experience?😛

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**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/185 "2014-03-09T04:10:47Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> You don’t realize how little that narrows it down, do you?

What do you mean?

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**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/186 "2014-03-09T04:51:28Z")

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Marriage customs, since we started writing stuff down, are all over the map. Marriage customs from _before_ we started writing stuff down, we don’t know shit about.

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**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-problem-with-gay-people-is-simply-a-lack-of-neighborliness-and-niceness/682892/187 "2014-03-09T05:12:53Z")

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Are we really having this same discussion again?

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