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Largest U.S. Bank Cuts Ties, CancelingTrump Jr. Event

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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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @08:32PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @08:32PM (#1198141)
    Religion is bullshit anyway, so for an increasing percentage of educated people, citing freedom of religion is a major fail. Plenty of places are not allowing religious groups exemptions for skipping getting vaccinated. And courts are backing them up, because safety trumps religious choice. And before you scream "fascist ", its the religious who have been the fascists throughout history.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @11:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @11:49PM (#1198184)

    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

    by khallow (3766) on Sunday November 21 2021, @09:33AM (#1198293) Journal

    so for an increasing percentage of educated people, citing freedom of religion is a major fail.

    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.