Posted on 08/26/2012 5:22:38 AM PDT by scottjewell
"Vermont Inn, 2 Lesbians settle gay marriage case"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2922119/posts
If anything is to be learned, its that voting on LGBT rights, discrimination laws, and gay marriage has to be taken very seriously, because once on the books there is no further recourse.
We need to overturn the civil rights act and allow people to run their private businesses as they wish.
If a business doesn’t want to serve straight white Christians, so be it. I’ll find one that does.
Back in the 1950s, some lunch counter owners said that they did not want to serve Negroes. "It's my business, and I can serve who I want." Society made the decision then that collective rights of some privileged classes were more important than property rights of individual business owners. It was a mistake.
It's a dumb business decision to say "I don't serve your kind" but in a society which values property, it is an essential right to say exactly that.
Interesting that they are now called “Public Businesses”. I suppose “Private Enterprise” is also an antiquated notion in the era of “You didn’t build that”.
I wish I could exclaim “Unbelievable!” alas, that day is long past.
Indeed - People are taught that 'civil rights' is the holy grail of life except it is anything but that. It is a tool that Marxist use to get what they want. Just who has these civil rights? Do I have civil rights? Obviously the owners of the Wildflower Inn don't have civil rights.
The next step? Force a church to perform a gay wedding.
One of my favorite presidents.
key words: “in Vermont”
I suspect that if anti discrimination laws were overturned minority owned businesses that discriminate would blossom and thrive far better than white owned racist businesses. The left simply cannot allow the world to see that.
In my personal opinion it would be a good thing because it would be good for the economy. As it is now, its doing more harm than good for minorities.
He doesn’t have the integrity to include the fact that the inn will refrain from this”discriminatory policy” by not hosting any wedding receptions, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Thus a vast majority’s rights to a chosen venue are abrogated. I suppose the same thing will happen when motel swimming pools begin to close down because of inability to afford the chair lift dictated by ADA fiats.
Actually, I think there were state laws requiring segregation. It was not up to the lunch counter. But, I could be wrong.
Another abuse of the courts......If my business is my property, I accept who I wish.
Communies and Leftists always see the world as a zero sum game. They steal something from you to give it to someone else. If that can’t do that, then they prevent you from earning what they want to steal. In this case, it’s wedding receptions.
Of course.
Yes, sadly, it seems long past.
“Obviously the owners of the Wildflower Inn don’t have civil rights.”
Perhaps one day all of this will be reversed on that premise.
Of course, there’s another way to skin a cat; the owners could give an interview to a Baptist Sunday school paper declaring that they will continue to contribute to supposedly anti-gay marriage (actually pro-family) charities, then the homosexuals will boycott them.
Right, yours is the common-sense approach with a respect for liberty - but we both know who will not allow this view to prevail.
“Actually, I think there were state laws requiring segregation. It was not up to the lunch counter. But, I could be wrong.”
You are absolutely correct. The laws mandated segregation in virtually all spheres of public life. So now we have gone to the other extreme.
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