If businesses are allowed to discriminate citing religious beliefs, then get ready to see some ugly throwbacks to pre-Civil Rights Era America.
Kent Greenfield
Kent Greenfield is professor of law and a Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College Law School. His latest book is The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits. He can be contacted on his website at http://kentgreenfield.com.Follow @kentgreenfield1
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