If your favorite restaurant constantly displayed political "humor" that espoused a belief system completely opposite of yours, would you continue to give them your business?

Here’s what I’m talking about. Probably the best pizza I’ve ever encountered is a couple miles down the street from me. The restaurant has been there since well before I moved to town and is basically one of those fixtures of the community, it’s not going anywhere, in fact, they’ve actually started opening several new locations around the city in the past few years. And this place, I’d say on a busy Saturday night, they bring out 4 pizzas a minute, all night long, it can take an hour and a half for carry out or two hours to be seated. I have yet to meet a person who didn’t rank their pizza as among the absolute best they’d ever had once they tried it. And I’ve been going here about 16 years now, usually I’ll carry out.

Well, right around the time that Bush II invaded Iraq, I started to see political cartoons in the entryway, and they were all very pro Bush, pro war, pro everything I can’t stand. Later there was a labor dispute there and it was clear that the owner was trying to screw over his employees, even though his business must be incredibly profitable. Yet, I always see the same people working there and they are always very friendly to me, they know me by name, the people who give me my pizza always make me feel welcome.

But the entry way seems to get more and more hostile, and when Obama came around, the level of anti-Obama rhetoric just became shrill and offputting. Things like “a recession is when a neighbor loses his job, depression is when you lose yours and recovery is when Obama loses his.” Then last night there was one “joke” posted about Obama being given an “Indian” name which indicates a bird that’s so full of shit it can’t fly straight. That was right under a tome about how if you illegally cross the border in this country you get shot, in that one you get thrown in jail, but if you cross the border illegally in the US you get a job and welfare and a social security card and blah blah blah…all this misinformation basically.

So, I struggle with this, because I believe everyone has a right to his opinion, and has the right to express it. And though I, were I a business owner, would keep my politics outside of my business simply because I think it’s good practice not to alienate half of your customers, I respect his right to post whatever he believes in a place he owns and operates. The employees are nice to me, and even if I took away all my business (meaning I’d have to never have that great pizza again), and convinced all my liberal friends somehow to do the same, it’s not like it’s going to hurt this guy’s bottom line one little bit.

So, I’m just curious if I should continue to ignore it and try not to think about how my business is lining the pockets of a whacko right wing creep, or if I should be a small pebble in a huge pond and just do what is morally inoffensive? What would you do?