Whatever else he did, he was one of the primary players in the undermining of association of freedom, and for me that negates a lot of what some consider “good” that he did. Freedom of assocation was one of the oldest God-given rights. The lack of it was the acceleration of all the present “social engineering”.
I couldn't agree more. Rand Paul took a lot of heat even here on Free Republic when he merely questioned some of the aspects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Likewise Barry Goldwater saw the dangers opened by this Pandora's Box, which as we now see nearly 50 years later, has only impeded freedom, liberty and as you so correctly point out, has trampled the God-given right of free association. And lurking behind the bit-by-bit dismantling of the Principles set forth by our Founding Fathers is the shadow of one Martin Luther King, Junior.