Hi, this is Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily article from Monday, June 25, 2018.

Racial discrimination is in today's news after the shooting of teenager Antoine Rose in East Pittsburgh.

Religious discrimination has been in the news with the recent masterpiece cake shop Supreme Court ruling.

Gender-based discrimination has been

much discussed with Saudi Arabia's recent decision to allow women to drive. Socoeconomic discrimination

is a fact of life in many cultures around the world. Now there's a new kind of discrimination

in the news. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has served as President Trump's press secretary since July of

2017. She made headlines over the weekend when she was refused service by a restaurant in

Lexington, Virginia. The issue was not a race, her religious commitments, her gender, or her social

or economic status. It had to do with her political positions. In her job, she explains and defends the president's beliefs and actions on various issues.

Sanders was asked to leave the Red Hin restaurant specifically because the owner and some of her employees disagreed with some of these political positions.

Disparaging people on the basis of their political beliefs

happens routinely on late-night television and in the news.

For instance, Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen and White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller

were recently heckled at restaurants by protesters objecting to the administration's

zero-tolerance border policy,

but they were not refused service by the restaurant's owners. This is not the first example

of political discrimination in the news. An internet marketing company announced after the 2016

election that it would no longer do business with any person that is a registered Republican or supports

Donald Trump. In April, the judge rejected a lawsuit brought by a man who claimed he was refused

service in a New York City bar because he was wearing a Make America Great Again hat. The judge stated

that the law doesn't protect against political discrimination.

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