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I voted yes. It's their privately owned business they should be able to restrict access to it to whomever they want to. There may have been a reason to step on that right a little bit in the past (I don't know) but now I don't see it. Besides why would you want to do business with someone who holds an irrational grudge against you? Better to bring them out in the open, see who they're discriminating against and then have a better vantage point on who to avoid doing business with. If I knew someone was discriminating against others for some stupid reason then I would actively keep my distance and money away from them.
The ultimate authority over which business decisions are viable in the market and which are not is the customers. As you so elegantly put it is better that the irrational grudges people have against us are known to all and what better way is there than to allow business owners to express themselves, so customers have further information to use when making decisions on the market. If immoral men are able to be heard then it will be up to society and its views on morality to decide if he stands to profit or if he falls into ruin. If however we silence them immoral men are only further enabled to stand against us as we stumble around in ignorance of their immorality.