[allmendream]

Hit the waywayback machine and Frederick Douglass was obliged to sit in the baggage car of a train (despite paying the same for his ticket) because all the passenger cars were for whites only, and Booker T. Washington was obliged to sleep under porches because no Hotel would allow a black man to take a room.

Where do you draw the line?

[GeronL]

I think people should be obliged to keep their sexual habits secret and none of it would really matter politically or legally.

[drbuzzard]

I would say I was pretty clear about my line- private property and private association. I don’t see it being any more moral to force people to associate than to force them not to associate.

Would I like all men to be angels? Yes, it would be nice. we don’t live in such a world however, and giving the government power to ignore rights for whatever the cause isn’t a really good idea. The one’s running the government aren’t angels either.