“What problems?”
Problems like when the majority of citizens decide to get together and deny services en masse to a minority of citizens, like, you know, happened in our country just a few decades ago. If you don’t see that as a pragmatic problem that comes along with certain freedoms, then I don’t know what to tell you.
“We’re all (supposed to be) free to associate with whomever we wish. Sad that a FReeper doesn’t understand that concept.”
This isn’t a matter that falls under freedom of association. Maybe you should learn what that freedom is before you try to condescendingly lecture others about it.
The marketplace should be the final arbiter. Not overbearing government. I should be able to sell goods and services to whomever I choose. The marketplace will ultimately give a thumbs up or thumbs down to my firm’s policies. Government should have no role and no right in the matter. Period.
People forget that in God’s eyes, homosexuality is indistinguishable from murder. He prescribed the same punishment for both offenses.
Jim Crow was LEGISLATED. It was governmentally COERCED.
This had nothing to do with individual white bigots not wanting to serve a black clientele. Such bigots would soon get punished by the market. They’d lose customers... DUH!
Do you think the bus company really wanted to force Rosa Parks out of her seat. I say no. That was an evil they were put up to by a government... and that of DEMOCRATS, by the way.