@71 -- straight people are indeed covered by non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation (because "straight" is a sexual orientation). While the laws are commonly termed "gay rights laws", in fact they cover anyone with a sexual orientation, and prohibit discrimination based on that factor. While primarily used to prevent anti-gay discrimination, there have been cases where gay bars refused to hire straight people, and the straight folks followed the procedures and won (some were in court, some were in administrative venues).

All this is based on the actions & comments of the print shop EMPLOYEE, Sarah Wheeler, who is an acquaintance of the bar owner. The bar owner worked through Wheeler, his acquaintance. She wrongly assumed the OWNER/operator's reason for declining the work in her personal reply to the bar owner.

The owner delined to print profanity.

The ACLU should go after the employee who sent the owner to her friend, not the shop owner who knew nothing about the email.

The ACLU should go after the employee who sent the offensive EMAIL to her friend, not the shop owner who knew nothing about the email.

Reading through the hateful nature of the responses I find your behavior shameful. What many of you are doing and advocating is much worse than the actions of the print shop owner.

A small business owner declined a job and many of you want want to harm his business and his family? That the epitome of liberal tolerance.

The more the hateful and small-minded people talk, the more they expose themselves. There might be a good reason that many of you exist on the fringes of society. It has nothing to do with any orientation or beliefs you hold. You're just not nice people.

What, is this 1952 or 2011?

What, is this 1951 or 2011?

I don't necessarily like the shop owner's views, but the email does not indicate that the job was refused due to sexual orientation. The flyer promotes activities that the business owner might not be comfortable with, and which are not directly related to sexual orientation. If they would refuse a similar ad for a non-gay bar, which I get the impression they would, then they're within their rights to refuse this ad.

They are small minded douche-bags, but they have a RIGHT to be small minded douche-bags. They shouldn't be under any obligation to print anything for anyone.

If I owned a print shop and refused to print an anti-gay flyer would the ACLU come after me? How about if I refused to print fliers for a mosque that advocated Sharia law?

If I were forced to print something that went against my morals I'd do such a crappy job of it the customer would never come back again.

Too bad there aren't hundreds of other printers in town. Oh, wait...

They shouldn't worry as much as being sued or violating the law as they should about staying in business.

I'm the owner of a local marketing agency with a high volume of print needs that I try to funnel through local businesses whenever I can (including theirs). And I'm gay. And they just lost my business forever.

By the way, you guys are going to the wrong website. They are at:
http://www.allaccessprint.com/