There is no steam coming from my ears, and my thinking is quite clear.
Please, you believe my thinking is unclear, you show me where private property rights and freedome of association are not fundamental principles of liberty.
You nor the government, nor anyone else has any right to tell private individuals who they can or cannot associate for whatever reason they decide.
I suggest you read the first ammendment of the Constitution if you think otherwise.
The right of the people peaceably to assemble with whoever they choose is a fundamental right.
Private Property rights are also fundamental to liberty, you cannot be free from opression if anyone holds any right to your personal property.
Private Clubs are free to allow or disallow anyone they want for whatever reason they want, and are just as free to allow or disallow whoever they want to use their property. The Catholic Church is free to refuse to rent its assembly halls to an abortion rights group, and if entered into a contract with them by mistake could break the countract and the only recourse is the violation of contract law, not that they are not allowed to do so, its that if they do they face a penalty for it. Its not a penalty of criminal law, but of civil law.
You are free to not like that people can decide who they do or don’t want to associate with, but of course you’re on the wrong side of liberty on that one, but hey, when you know better how everyone else should live their lives, you are so far on the other side of liberty that the concept is completely foreign to you anyway.
What do you expect in the blue appendage of an otherwise red state?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
That is so we don’t pick and choose. Note that what congress cannot abridge is the right to peaceably assemble. That is not that same as your claim of free association. There are not only conceptual differences but legal differences as well.
“You nor the government, nor anyone else has any right to tell private individuals who they can or cannot associate for whatever reason they decide.” Fundamentally wrong. IF you are plotting to overthrow the government, the government not only can but will limit your “right” to associate. The right is not absolute -— just as you maynot shout fire in a crowded theater.
Liberty, freedom of the individual comes from our Creator. Man’s governments tend to want to strip us of those gifts. With that I will agree. But the COnstitution is not an absolutist document. It does not require us to commit suicide as a society in order to protect it.
You have claimed that all of liberty and all of Western Civilization is founded on private property rights and the right of free association. I would suggest that documents such as the Magna Carta espouse the importance of the individual ahead of the state. Prior to that time the king or that state was supreme. Freedom is a God given right. Protect it while you have it.
And your thinking is still cloudy