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Articles at Public Discourse are almost always excellent reads and well worth your time. This one is no exception.

[Nea Wood]

Excellent article, thanks for posting.

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I'll go even further than the article. I believe the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution are absolute when it comes to freedom of association. Therefore, we have the absolute, unquestionable right to say, "we don't server your kind here." To make arbitrary exceptions for "food" or "lodging" is just a leak in the dike.

Were this freedom to be allowed to hold absolute sway once again, do you know what would happen in this country? Nothing. Only a much more civil country where people were properly considerate of the beliefs of others when it came to there own property.

[GenXteacher]

That is a good article. One the chief casualties of the so-called civil rights movement has been the freedom of association that is an important part of natural law. In embracing the ‘equality’ that the French Revolution dismally reached for, our society has displaced the liberty that our own American Revolution reached for. The bureaucratic machinery for attempting to abolish discrimination against former slaves will eventually be used to make slaves of all of us.