[ThisLittleLightofMine]

You are taking my quote out of context, a private home is not a public restaurant or public pool or public property. You are not changing peoples attitudes towards other races by making them comply with these laws. They still have hatred in their hearts. My point is simply that if a man wants to sell his home he should be able to sell it to who he wants to sell it to.

[Alter Kaker]

You are not changing peoples attitudes towards other races by making them comply with these laws.

I don't care if you're changing their attitudes or not. I think its discriminatory and un-American to exclude black people or Jews or Irish from a restaurant or a neighborhood or a swimming pool or a school, and that's my concern. Whether or not they like each other is a separate issue outside of the purview of government.

[jackbob]

My point is simply that if a man wants to sell his home he should be able to sell it to who he wants to sell it to.

No one says in the context of this thread that a man can not sell his home to who ever he wants to. Rufus was not told that he could not sell his home to who ever he wanted to. That has not been the issue. The issue has to do with him presenting his home for sale on the open market. That is he used view from a public street to advertise and invite the public to purchase his home, and then when potential buyer expended effort to make the purchase, he denied them due to their race. Any just society would afford the denied some amount of restitution.