Locke: Toleration Discussion Questions

What are the limits of civic toleration – when, if ever, should individual and/or religious liberties be limited?

Should the KKK or Aryan Nations be allowed to march and hand out pamphlets on the UI campus?

Should ISIS or the Taliban?

Should an American business owner be allowed to not provide a good or service to another on the basis of religion? 

 

Is it ok for the French to ban the "burkini" on French beaches?

 

Should a conservative Christian baker be allowed to refuse baking a wedding cake for a gay couple?  Note: this case settled in 2018. See "Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission"

 

Should a conservative Muslim restaurant owner be allowed to refuse service to a Christian couple?

 

Should a Neo-Confederate, KKK-member, restaurant owner be allowed to refuse service to blacks?