To suggest that an employer has the right to refrain from an employment contract as a property right simply flies in the face of legislation which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, sex, sexual persuasion, age etc. Likewise, a restauranteur has no similar property rights, nor does anyone in a place of public accommodation. A landlord of a multifamily dwelling has no such right. The list goes on and on.
Much of this legislation was put in place a decade before this article was written in 1976 but it has certainly been expanded in every decade since then.
If one looks at the loss of liberty, rather than the social value inherent in doing away with discrimination, one begins to understand why Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act. To Barry Goldwater these rights were imperishable but to the progressives they were mere obstacles.
