No vax, no service

Regarding Art Hudson’s April 13 letter, he claims the Sentinel’s editors exhibit a fundamental lack of understanding of the U.S. Constitution, because an editorial labeled Gov. Ron DeSantis’s banning of vaccination passports as impulsive. I suggest Mr. Hudson may be the one demonstrating such a lack of understanding.

Exactly which article of the constitution is he claiming gives the right to the governor to tell a business that it cannot make and enforce its own rules about who it chooses to permit on its own property? Doesn’t a business have a right to refuse service to anyone, for nearly reason, including for refusing to show proof of vaccination, in order to help protect their other patrons?

If a business has a right to say “no shirt, no shoes, no service,” then it certainly have the right to add “no mask,” or “no proof of vaccination” to the list. If someone doesn’t like a business’s rules, they have the constitutional right to take their business elsewhere.

Alan Herrington Orlando