Posted on 08/31/2011 8:48:47 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
Unfortunately, many Americans have become inured to the trampling of freedom of association. You can work your fingers to the bone starting a business, and the government becomes a partner that contributes nothing but extracts much. It not only shares your profits and regulates you to death, but, more to the point here, dictates whom you must serve and the bases on which you may hire and fire people. And woe betide he who doesn’t bow before Leviathan.
A recent example of this is the Wildflower Inn, a Vermont B&B. After devout Catholic owners Jim and Mary O’Reilly refused to host a “wedding” reception for two lesbians, they were sued by the ACLU. As a result, they have had to expend resources retaining a lawyer for a case that they will no doubt lose and that will likely end with their having to pay monetary damages. Of course, the O’Reilly case is just one of many. In fact, today, Leviathan’s tyranny has reach a point at which you can be put through its meat grinder if you refuse to hire a cross-dresser or a Muslim woman who insists on wearing an eighth-century drape to work.
And tyranny is the word for it. After all, no one would deny that you have a right to include in or exclude from your home whomever you please. So why should you lose that right simply because you decide to erect a few more tables and sell food or to rent rooms to travelers? It’s still your private property, paid for with your money, created by the sweat of your own brow.
...But the reality is that we need a solution, and I just may have one.
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Hmm, a “private club” based economy!
I like it! The only problem is that once the liberals and statists catch on it will only be a matter of time before the loophole is closed. They will try to pass laws applying conventional business standards to the private clubs and exsiting private clubs will be ruined....
Then we will have to resort to using religious freedom (what is left of it) in place of private clubs (in order to shop here you have to be a member of “the church of crazy eddie’s used cars” and this will further erode things.....
It's not a "loophole", it's an Unalienable Right. Such rights will exist as long as America does. If they attempted to close such "loopholes", civil war would inevitably result.
It's unfortunate that people who wish to exercise their freedom of association, are now forced to engage in this legal technicality in order to do so.
[ The only problem is that once the liberals and statists catch on it will only be a matter of time before the loophole is closed.
It’s not a “loophole”, it’s an Unalienable Right. Such rights will exist as long as America does. If they attempted to close such “loopholes”, civil war would inevitably result.
It’s unfortunate that people who wish to exercise their freedom of association, are now forced to engage in this legal technicality in order to do so. ]
Since when have “inaleinable rights” stopped progressives?
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