“I don’t think there’s a documentary for the side that objected to giving the federal government the power to tell the local shop owner who he must serve . . . because small government people knew that one day they’d be required to bake a gay wedding cake or go to jail and lose their business.”
The fact that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would give the national government power over the free choice of individual Americans is precisely why Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Bill Buckley opposed it. It was an early choice between freedom and ‘social justice’, that always evolving agenda of the political Left.
Those who sing the praises of the 1964 Civil Rights Act have no room to complain when new “rights” like gay marriage are forced upon them. That 1964 act created the ability of the federal government to determine what opinions are socially acceptable. And if you don’t go along with the officially approved agenda then you can and will be prosecuted, fired from your job, or generally made into a pariah.
Barry Goldwater explains his vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Firing Line (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tacJtYPHKiE
Mr. Conservative: Barry Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJyWWM9OHKA
1964 Reagan speech in support of Goldwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvZ1nnYkZQ4
Very good! I thought of finding some interviews but I had no idea who/how to find them - my memory grows dim!
Thanks for the links.
Magnus strongly opposed St Martins national holiday
And now GOPe kneepad over it
Pathetic times