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You are in private business, and own your own private business. You can do whatever you want with rules and such as long as you don't get caught running a foul of the law. You can repress free speech, expression of religion, the Right to bear arms, be a single race or sex or sexual orientation employer, require english only, etc. This was a governmental agency, and they must transparently not discriminate or infringe on Rights. The firefighter had discussed this with whoever had issues with it, but no where does it state that he received due process until this release today. This should have happened after his first discussion!