GOP’er Says Racist Businesses SHOULD Be Allowed to Deny Service to Black People

[hue]

http://aattp.org/goper-says-racist-businesses-should-be-allowed-to-deny-service-to-blacks/


Posted by: John Prager in LGBT, Racism in America, TEApublican Smack Downs March 17, 2014

Recently, South Dakota’s legislature killed a bill that makes Arizona’s bigoted lawmakers look like amateurs in the hate game. The “F*ck it, let’s just hate everyone” legislation would have not only allowed businesses to refuse business to the LBGT community–but to anyone they wished, including–as the man who introduced the legislation explicitly pointed out–African Americans.

“As a follower of Jesus Christ, I’m commanded to love, to love everyone. That doesn’t mean I must condone the lifestyle choices that someone chooses. The GLBT movement doesn’t just want society’s approval. They want their lifestyle choices applauded; they want standing ovations,” state Senator Phil Jensen told South Dakota Public Radio in February.

Jensen says that the bill would have protected “ the constitutional right to free association, the right to free speech and private property rights.” He says it would have ensured that business were free to choose their clientele.” According to this colossal bigot, if people had a problem with a certain ‘kind’ not being served, the free market would sort it out.

“If someone was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and they were running a little bakery for instance, the majority of us would find it detestable that they refuse to serve blacks, and guess what? In a matter of weeks or so that business would shut down because no one is going to patronize them,” he told the Rapid City Journal.

[catbyte]

1. Teh stoopid never quits.

[louis-t]

2. Free market bullshit.

So much for their 'pro-business' agenda. What would be the point of letting someone keep 'those people' out of their business and running it into the ground? It seems like a colossal waste of time.

[Sunlei]

3. I took a look at his websites to try to see if his education was the reason he doesn't seem to

understand the social damages by allowing discrimination.

Senator Phil Jensen has no education listed, his personal website is not even as decent as his churches website. Wiki lists no education or personal history either, he could update that himself. Maybe his church gave him these kind of 'values'. Though the link to his church is broken on his website.

Who knows, there are a lot of people in politics that got in with only a couple thousand votes. And here they are, calling to restart business segregation of Americans because of his church.

[Thor_MN]

11. Found it.

http://catgovernmentalaffairs.com/voter-resources/official/271447/Phil/Jensen

High school and a sub-Palinesque mishmash of Community College courses... 7 years, apparently no degree. Was at Pratt 1973-1977

Sounds like education was not too important to him, despite being on the Education Committee in the SD senate.


EDUCATION

Pratt Community College (KS) ( - )
Wichita State University (KS) ( - )
Butler County Community College, El Dorado (KS) ( - )
Southeast High School, Wichita (KS) ( - 1970)

[Kablooie]

4. Yeah! If they don't like it they shouldn't have chosen to be black.

[Gothmog]

5. Rand Paul has been advocating this position

This idiot is not out of the mainstream of GOP political thought. Rand Paul has been advocating that private businesses should be allowed to discriminate

[Pakid]

6. Just as long as they have to put up a sign that says

this business is owned by a racist asshole in the front window. This state is run by racists asshole's sign should also be posted at the state line of every state that try to past this crap

[radicalliberal]

7. And the Republicans wonder why most blacks won't vote for their candidates? n/t

[radicalliberal]

8. People like this jerk are an embarrassment to Christians everywhere. n/t

[Brigid]

9. Dear Phil Jensen:

We fought this battle 50. Freaking. Years. Ago.

Idiot.

[lastlib]

10. P.S. Phil, your side LOST!!

Accept it. If you can't accept it, move to another continent. Like Antarctica--it might be white enough for ya.