If you, as part of the public market, choose to operate a business under the auspices of the public market and its overseeing body, you agree to do so under certain terms.

What public market? A business is a private affair and they do business with who they choose on a private basis. When did these businesses agree to such terms? Where is the contract they signed to agree to such terms?

Among these terms are that all members of the public body cannot be denied access based on such criteria as race and gender. If you choose to not do business with them based on another criterion, such as them not having enough money, that is within your rights.

Again we are back to your arbitrary definition not based in any solid moral theory but simply on the whims of a supposedly majority opinion. Remember what is wrong for an individual is wrong for the state.

But we have agreed that it is within their rights to have access to the goods and services a business offers, and to not be denied based on such criteria as race and gender.

Who is this we? Certainly I don’t see any business agreeing to such terms without signing a contract.

Again you are making a leap without any moral basis or theory, but instead a weak form of appeal to popularity.

Obviously you haven’t learned the cardinal lesson that coercive social edicts do not solve pervasive social problems.

You won’t agree, of course, because you don’t believe that to be a right. You instead believe that only ‘individual’ rights exist. Perhaps you should clarify what rights you believe exist, since the legal definition of one does not seem to apply to you.

A right is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as “a power, privilege, (sic) faculty, or demand, inherent in one person and incident upon another … the powers of free action.”

Rights have three conditions:

1) All rights are derived from property IE whoever controls the property has the right to determine what happens to it. In the case of individuals this includes the self.

2) Every right implies a responsibility

3) The only limitation of your rights is the equal rights of others.

If it does not conform to this standard it is not a right.