Amen, preach it!!!
I’m all for this.
We are giving up in everything.
It is disheartening.
But America decided over 60 years ago that business owners did not control their businesses and they had to serve the people that the ruling class designated.
And here we are.
The Civil Rights Act is now over 50 years old. It forced quite a few businessmen to provide service to racial groups despite their sincerely held religious beliefs against doing so.
I think their religious beliefs were stupid, but the ideal you describe died 50 years ago, not last week.
There is no inherently logical reason to favor anti-discrimination laws forcing people to rent rooms to black customers while at the same time opposing similar tactics applied to business owners not wanting to provide certain services to gay customers.
Unless it's the fact that you agree with the "homophobic" businessman but disagree with the racist guy.
The problem with any religious exclusion is that it doesn't matter a hoot in hell, logically, whether you or I agree with the beliefs of the person claiming the exclusion.
Oh, there is one other possible reason to allow one exclusion and not the other. That race should be considered a legitimate basis for outlawing discrimination and sexual orientation should not. The problem with that one is that once you start giving such protection to some groups but not others, there's no particular reason to make the distinction other than political popularity.
If I understand correctly, there was such a place that allowed this (though some claim these allegations are apocryphal).
It was called... America...
Hey goodn’mad, we’ve been goodn’had.
Nice thought but not going to happen.
BG has had a taste of choking and looting businesses with massive punitive regulations, endless fees, taxes, policies, costly smothering environmental laws for decades now.
It’ll never be turned back by traditional means.
In fact what you’ll get is more of the same but they’ll double down.
Nice post.
I think most Americans (other than the gimme crowd) are fed up with “You didn’t build that!” and “Hand over more of your pie.”
Leave business alone!
Yes, liberals complain about lobbying, crony capitalism and corporate welfare.....but business would not lobby if gov’t could not make or break their business with regulations and tax law.
Liberals complain about Citizens United but do not appreciate the fact that companies need to lobby in order to survive.
Liberals would prefer a system where gov’t can regulate and you can redress via lobbying.
Of course, liberals love corporations that support the agenda via lobbying......like green energy or Apple.
When i was in school in Chattanooga, in 1970, The restaurants that did not want to serve blacks just put reservation signs on the tables. there were some. And if i remember at the time the church that ran the school would not accept black members. I just googled the church and school and they are both gone now. wow. they hated the jesus movement too. that’s why i left. Heard Ian Paisley preach there without microphone. You couldn’t swim in a pool with girls. (funny cause in the burbs near philly here we were members of a swim club since i was 5) only dresses on girls, no pants. etc
Great piece! Praise be. This one is a keeper.
This madness was planned at least since Karl Marx, but in the 1960’s, Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda’s ex, was a young communist mastermind pushing the envelope and accelerating the process. Radical left student leaders like Tom Hayden (now adjunct professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Obama’s dive) realized overt violence would repel most of the middle class. So the lefties went full speed on slow rot of the minds and souls of the youth. Tom Hayden, founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), spearhead of the radical left, has said Obama was their (’60s left) pinnacle creation.
The following is from a 1968 instructional flyer of the Youth International Party (Yipppies) authored by Tom Hayden & Rennie Davis of SDS.
“Disobey your parents, burn your money, you know life is a dream, all of our institutions are manmade illusions effective because YOU take the dream of reality.
Break down the family, church, nation, city, economy; turn life into an art form, a theater of the soul and a theater of the future; the revolutionary is the only artist.
What is needed is a generation of people who are freaky, crazy, irrational, sexy, angry, irreligious, childish, and mad: people who burn draft cards, burn high school and college degrees; people who say: To hell with your goals! People who lure the youth with music, pot, and acid; people who re-define the normal; people who break with the status role title consumer game; people who have nothing material to lose but their flesh.
The white youth of America have more in common with (American) Indians than they do with their own parents. Burn their houses down, and you will be free.”
The liberal Borg cube has the momentum. The Federation seems to be completely compromised. We will all be assimilated - or annihilated.
If our planet is indeed the lone miracle of life in the universe, it’s a shame. Humanity seems to be wired to self-destruct. The best days are gone, hope we all got to enjoy some of them. Looks like it’s all downhill from here.
No.
I am not well over a century old. Even if I feel like it at times.
Years ago I suggested that we start “two cultures” (which we have) with Red money for Proglodytes and Blue money for Patriots. Businesses could be Blue or Red. Problem solved. See how long Red Society lasts on it’s own.
It would certainly end the current uproar. In the meanwhile, businesses may have to quit being “open to the public”. Like buyer’s clubs, they restrict membership. Only provide goods or services to those they choose.