You may feel it is the same, your home and your business, but the law does not see it as the same in the US. There are already laws on the books, upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional valid, that prohibit discrimination due to race, gender, and other reasons, regarding both who your business serves if it provides a service and who it hires. Such laws have been around more than 50 years.
Even though this doesn't apply to homosexuals in most parts of the country, there is still very much a legal difference between your right to restrict who walks through the doors of your home and who walks through the doors of your business. This is why you can not tell someone they can not eat in your resturant just because they are black. The Supreme Court determined that the Commerce Clause of the constitution grants the government the authority to make this distinction. I agree with such laws.
You may not agree with those laws, and it is your right to try and have them changed of you wish. But from a legal standpoint, it is not the same thing.
should employers be allowed to discriminate?
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You may feel it is the same, your home and your business, but the law does not see it as the same in the US. There are already laws on the books, upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional valid, that prohibit discrimination due to race, gender, and other reasons, regarding both who your business serves if it provides a service and who it hires. Such laws have been around more than 50 years.
Even though this doesn't apply to homosexuals in most parts of the country, there is still very much a legal difference between your right to restrict who walks through the doors of your home and who walks through the doors of your business. This is why you can not tell someone they can not eat in your resturant just because they are black. The Supreme Court determined that the Commerce Clause of the constitution grants the government the authority to make this distinction. I agree with such laws.
You may not agree with those laws, and it is your right to try and have them changed of you wish. But from a legal standpoint, it is not the same thing.