Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets denied dinner. Maxine Waters goes philosophically fascist, and George Will goes too far. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Man, over the weekend, I turned to my wife and I said, I am exhausted by the news cycle. And then the rest of the news cycle hits. That was awesome. Lots of stuff to talk about today. Apparently, you can't go anywhere for dinner now, which is kind of frightening. We'll get to all of that. First, I want to mention that we have a special live stream coming up Monday, July 2nd, at 7 p.m. Eastern. It's our July 4th special. We'll be joined by special guest Jordan Peterson to celebrate Independence Day. God King Jeremy Boring will host a new edition of Daily Wire backstage with me and Andrew McLevin and Michael Knowles to look back on our country's birth and look ahead to its future. Subscribers will even be able to write in live questions for us to answer on the air. Jordan's going to be sitting in with us as well. That is Monday, July 2nd, 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific with Jordan Peterson. And you can find our special live stream on Facebook and YouTube. so don't miss it. Also, before we get started,

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You don't want me to eat in your restaurant because I'm a Republican? That's your business. You want to ban me from your private college campus like you did it to Paul University. That's your business, right? It's a free country. You can do that. Does it make for a better country? No. And I do want to distinguish here between trying to force somebody to participate via governmental intervention in somebody else's activity and whether something is good or not. So as I've said many times, I think that as a

general rule you should serve everybody who comes into your establishment. I don't think that

necessarily means you have to serve everybody who comes into your establishment. I don't think

that means that you must serve people who want special privileges or they want you to participate in a ceremony that you feel is immoral. But I do think that as a general rule, just as a good person, if I owned an establishment, I would service you if you came into my establishment. I wouldn't service a same-sex wedding because I have moral objections to a same-sex wedding, just as many of these bakers and photographers do. But if I owned a restaurant like Chick-fil-A, I would allow anybody to eat there

just as Chick-fil-A, I would allow anybody to eat there, just as Chick-fil-A does. And I think that is the moral thing to do. I think that is the right thing to do. Again, you have the freedom to reject anybody. So there's been a big brew-haha over the weekend because it turns out that Sarah Huckabee Sanders went to a restaurant called the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia. And Stephanie Wilkinson, who's the owner of the red hen

in Lexington, asked the press secretary to leave the restaurant on Friday evening. She told she,

she apparently took a staff vote before privately asking Sanders to leave the restaurant. And Sanders

replied, that's fine, I'll go. One diner posted an image of 86 next to her name, industry slang for kickout. So the owner of the red hen restaurant has revealed why she refused to serve the White House press secretary. On Friday night, Sanders was asked to leave the Lexington, Virginia restaurant where she was dining with her seven family members. And restaurant owner Stephanie Wilkinson said she took a staff vote before asking Sanders to leave.

When they voted to Boudreau, Wilkinson complied.

Tell me what you want me to do.

I can ask her to leave and they said yes.

So apparently she started texting to all of her employees about it. She said, I'm not a huge fan of confrontation. I have a business and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.

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