Can the state force a business to give discounts to atheists if the business offers discounts to people who attend church? Yes, if an atheist named Wolff has his way.
Wolff has filed a complaint against a restaurant that offers a 10% discount to people who bring in a church bulletin. Where has he filed it? With the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
Shouldn’t discounts be an issue left to the free market? Not in today’s regulated economy. The state must now decide.
Why should this be a church-state issue? Because anything can become a church-state issue in a world filled with bureaucrats and atheists who want to get their worldview shoved down the throats of Christians.
They are not content with their right not to believe in God. They must be allowed to get in on any special benefits that Christians give to each other.
The state, whose officers share this hostility to Christians and also the private sector, makes it easy for atheists to bring lawsuits against Christians.
This will go on for as long as voters vote for politicians who think that the state should regulate businesses.
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Published on July 13, 2012. The original is here.
The atheist won this case. He got exactly what he wanted. The owner of the restaurant capitulated. She agreed to offer the discount to members of any religious group. That was exactly what the atheist had demanded. The story is here. She claimed that she had never intended to discriminate against anybody. From an economic standpoint, this is analytical nonsense. If you offer a discount to members of one group, and you do not offer it to members of another group, you are discriminating against one group in favor of another group.
This is one more example of what happens when voters demand that civil governments regulate businesses. I call it Venezuela lite.
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