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AIDS, state regulation ( restriction of trade ), a blood-bath of torts, pervasive political correctness-all of this brings one view back to my mind, the strenuous debates over the Civil Rights Bill ( 1964? ). I do recall the Republican majority insisting & voting for passage-but at what an awful cost.

As a young teen, I recall being shaken to the core, watching & listening to Sen. Goldwater & others calmly discuss the willing destruction of our property rights, our freedom of association, an obvious extension of the government's already vast powers-to achieve what we all knew to be simple fairness & equity for what was seen as the underclass, the persons of color so easily discriminated against. Earlier, I had been instructed by my parents as to some obvious flaws of our society, the need to deal with all people in fairness & equity. My parents ( no liberals-quite the opposite ) had, quietly, led by example in large & small ways. I was amazed at being happy to see these changes-to know that a society could freely improve. I knew, watching the debates of the senate, that the goal might instead be achieved with simple condemnation-attitude change via positive example & selective condemnation of those who failed to see the truth... I had, by then, already seen remarkable & subtle changes in society which were moving us toward the proper standard of personal & public behavior-the ball having been put in motion long before by the Warren Court & the public figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

Even at a tender & uninformed age, I knew this Civil Rights Bill was one of several steps in a basic & monumental restructuring of our system. The contract was being altered & gov power so expanded, I was frightened to realize it might be so handily changed. I saw, in a flash, that day on the black & white news tape, the darker future.

This or any dentist, fool or not, is being perfectly logical to avoid anyone he or she chooses-it's still a private office-neither the gov, the ACLU, nor some homosexual interest group paid his share of education costs, his license fees, nor his overhead. Neither will others fund his retirement or, failing to protect himself, his health care. Ditto his patient's exposure(s) from a more careless physician. Anyone in such close proximity to anyone else ( where exposure to bodily fluids may be common ) is a gambler, not to protect themselves & the patient.

Putting aside the merits of this particular case, see how the public, the state & a few of us here, take apart the behavior of anyone who dares take caution, discretion, religious scruples & assert mere personal prerogatives. When people employ the term 'fascist' with reference to the Left, I see why-it certainly fits.

I was so moved by the Civil Rights debates as to pay far more attention to the Constitution. I wonder if anyone else does?