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To: Lisbon1940

If I have a business of any kind, I can discriminate all I like. I can choose to do business with anyone I want to. It is called free enterprise.

When the government is telling you who you can and cannot do business with, therein lies tyranny.


13 posted on 08/18/2014 1:48:57 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 put the camel’s nose under the tent for this kind of oppression. It’s why Goldwater voted against it.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 1:54:14 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Bulwyf

“If I have a business of any kind, I can discriminate all I like. I can choose to do business with anyone I want to. It is called free enterprise.”

Nope.

Ever since the civil rights movement, businesses lost autonomy over who they serve or do business with. You only have as much freedom as the government decides to give you. You cannot refuse to serve black people, or Muslims, or women, and in many parts of the country you can no longer refuse to serve homosexuals. The battle was lost half a century ago, once it is established that government runs all businesses, forcing you to cater a homosexual wedding is a tiny step.


42 posted on 08/18/2014 2:48:40 PM PDT by BurningOak (Live Free or Die)
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To: Bulwyf
When the government is telling you who you can and cannot do business with, therein lies tyranny.

It's government-enforced slavery.

64 posted on 08/19/2014 9:38:50 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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