Public Accommodations

Term Paper There has been numerous cases and articles that have come up in the past years that impacted communities or the national as well as internationally because of the situation that left customers being discriminated upon by the business owners. However, these cases are started to increase as of lately. The main topic that is at the root of this situation is that of the refusal of services of customer’s base on their sexual orientation. Some cases have seen some business paying fines in regards of not following the public accommodations laws that states have in place. However same-sex couples are still being refuse of services by owners who consider their religious beliefs to be above the law but consequently by court must abide by the laws that are set forth by the government. Unfortunately, there has been some bills that are being passed into law in some states that protect those business owner’s religious beliefs. In order to understand this is by discussing cases that relate to the hospitality industry, as well as discussing what the public accommodations law is, discussed the bills being passed in certain states as well as …show more content…
Public Accommodations law is that hinders any type of discrimination against individuals under a certain type of category at business that serve to the public freely (The FindLaw Legal Dictionary, 2016). State Public Accommodations laws vary by each state. There are 24 states that do not have protection against discrimination on the sole bases on sexual orientation some states include the state of Texas as and the state of Arizona (NCSL, 2015). Some states only have certain provisions to protection individuals based on race as well as gender (NCSL, 2015). The cases or incidents being discuss will fall in the either the implications of violating the Public Accommodations laws or those similar to the Public Accommodations laws in which they occur in either here in the United States or