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Largest U.S. Bank Cuts Ties to Conservative Group, Canceling Donald Trump Jr. Event
The country's largest bank has cut ties with a Missouri conservative group, forcing an event that had been set to feature Donald Trump Jr. to be immediately canceled.
[....] Defense of Liberty founder Paul Curtman, a former GOP state representative, told the Missouri Independent that WePay informed him in a message that it would no longer do business with his group based on an alleged violation of terms of service and had refunded $30,000 in payments already processed for the event.
"It seems you're using WePay Payments for one or more of the activities prohibited by our terms of service," the message reportedly states. "More specifically: Per our terms of service, we are unable to process for hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime, or items or activities that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others regarding the same."
Maybe Trump Jr and Defense of Liberty political action committee should not promote such things?
Or . . . maybe those things are their core message, and appeal to their base.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @09:07PM (5 children)
I realise that you're just a shouty troll who gets off on being the louder idiot, but ... you didn't actually answer the question.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @12:39AM (4 children)
Looks like pointing out Republican double-think, on this site conservatives all lined up to support the baker's discrimination. Now that conservatives are getting a taste of the discrimination they love to serve suddenly it is not ok and something must be done to protect conservatives from people not wanting anything to do with them. It is very sad, but no one expected integrity or intelligence from conservatives after 2016. Well, to be fair, it was a black man being elected president that really broke you all, but 2016 was when you decided fascism was cool.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:54AM (3 children)
So, if I'm reading your position correctly, people forfeit their right to freedom of religion if they want to have a business, and the government can use private businesses as proxies to exact a prohibitive toll on the exercise of disfavoured civil liberties.
See the common thread of civil liberties there? The baker wanted to retain his (even after the Colorado commission openly disparaged them, and him), and the bank isn't laying claim to anything about civil liberties but is assailing the civil liberties of its customers - and unlike bakers, banks have close regulatory ties with the federal government.
Now, I don't honestly know what the republicans/conservatives on this site think, but if I were to take a wild guess, I'd lay pretty fair odds that somehow they're the one concerned about civil liberties, here, and that they're being consistent about it. From my perspective as an ACLU-supporting liberal sort of guy, you seem to think that civil liberties are icky because nasty people use them to make you cry. Maybe you should consider that pluralism isn't all bad, for a nation?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @08:32PM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @11:49PM
Even if all that is true (nnnnot quite really on the fascist thing, by the way) it has no bearing on religious identification as a civil liberty.
Bear in mind that the real secret sauce behind religious freedom is that government can't tell you you're wrong to hold a given opinion. They can disagree with the opinion, and they can order things in a certain way to represent social needs (no human sacrifices, please) but matters of personal revelation and conscience are beyond their reach.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 21 2021, @09:33AM
Depends on the country, but for the US, the increasing percentage of education peoples' opinions are completely irrelevant unless they start modifying the US Constitution.