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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: BurningOak

The ‘public accomodations’ portion of the 1965 Civil Rights Act did away with personal property rights.

Goldwater warned this would be the outcome.


48 posted on 08/18/2014 3:08:45 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: BurningOak

I am not saying what the law is, I am saying how it is in my world. Those are my principles and I will not be bullied.


52 posted on 08/18/2014 3:56:29 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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