"The bill of rights does not apply to businesses, only to individuals. Like forcing those cigarette warning labels are not prohibited."
Point A, pregnancy aid centers are not engaged in commerce. They provide a free service, with no exchange of money.
Point B, the can be regulated to stop force or fraud, as I said before. But they dont't engage in force or fraud.
Point C, cigarette warning labels? You're serious? You're going to defend government-mandated cigarette warning labels? How about fat-content warning labels for Pasta Alfredo? Percentage of fiber in your favorite snack-crackers? Mandatory warnings on the backs of refrigerators that say "Don't try to carry this on your back down a flight of stairs"?
In a conservative forum, it's so rare to hear this kind of approving reference to the unfortunate proliferation of nanny-state regulations that I'm rather taken aback.
"Try telling your female employee you like her rear end and see how much the Bill of Rights protects you. Try telling your customer you dont like his race or sex"
Now I'm completely floored. All of these ought to be personal liberty social-decorum "free speech" issues. Demeaning race or sex talk disgusts me, but I don't think the jackasses involved ought to be prosecuted or litigated. If you talk this way and it's getting in the way of your work, I support the right of your boss to fire you.
Yes, some of us do defend all that conservative-liberty stuff including the right to annoying free speech. It's as good a reason as any to hang around Free Republic.
Are you kidding? Do they have employees? Are they Incorporated? If someone slips on ice on the property, who gets sued? The individual?
Are you making the argument a nonprofit business is an individual under the constitution?
When they make YOU wear a sign I will be the first to defend your rights as an individual.
“In a conservative forum, it’s so rare to hear this kind of approving reference to the unfortunate proliferation of nanny-state regulations that I’m rather taken aback.”
Oh come now.
Surely you’ve run across the car-insurance and car-safety (seat belts, child seats) discussions occasionally.
Not rare at all.