Religious reasons, yes. But this isn't about religion. This is profession. The KKK thing I haven't heard about, and if true, must be due to state law, not federal.

Not sure if I totally buy choice as a turning point in the whole discrimination conversation, but even so - my position is that I don't have a real problem with the bank discriminating based on profession.

What this 6-year old lacks in the ability to spell, he makes up in having remarkably nice penmanship!

I disagree. There are other banks for people to use, it's not like a utility where there isn't any competition.

How does any of this have anything to do with religious beliefs?

Can I just say (and it might just have been the Lana del Ray song), but Endless Love had one of the most compelling trailers I'd seen in a long time (and I seemed to see a ton of times in the theater). But it was apparently a terrible movie. Such a shame.

No, the rational basis test doesn't apply. The rational basis test only applies to the government, not businesses.

Good luck.

Ah, can't counter my factually correct statements, so you have to attack "my tone." Unsurprising.

It's true for housing, but it's not true for banking.

Yes. But you were trying to say "and that's why you can't discriminate against professions" which is just wrong.

But even the federal government can discriminate on profession, so it really doesn't matter that they took tax dollars.

Sorry I proved you wrong and it made you so angry.

In housing, not banking. You try again.

No, it's totally different than denying business based on race - race (and gender, religion, etc.) are protected classes. Profession is not a protected class. That makes it legal (even if it were the federal government).

Yes, Chase can't deny services based on race or religion. Because they are protected classes. Profession isn't one of them. Even the federal government could discriminate based on profession; the fact that Chase takes tax dollars doesn't change the conversation.

It's not. You can absolutely have a bank that only lends to republicans.

There's no indication whatsoever that this has anything to do with religion. You're pulling that out of your ass.

That's not true. That's not a legal doctrine, you're literally making that up.

That's fine. If you think that a person's profession should be a protected class, or that every bank should be forced to serve every single person, okay, fine, try to change the law. I don't think either of those things are positives, because I do not think that banking is "essential" (I have a very high bar for…