Posted on 03/31/2014 7:24:24 PM PDT by Clintons-B-Gone
Almost sixty years ago, there were many places in this country where a black person couldn’t sit at the lunch counter of a local diner. Sometimes they were forced to sit in the back of the bus or give up their seat to a white passenger. Blacks often couldn’t use the same restroom, find a vacancy in the same hotel, or take a drink from the same water fountain as that used by white citizens.
Those were certainly some of the bleaker days in our nation’s proud history.
However, in much the same way that slavery was abolished in this country, the scourge of segregation was also eventually condemned to the ash heap of American history.
(Excerpt) Read more at clashdaily.com ...
Oranges are not Apples.
all those bleak days in our history were controlled by the Democrats.
You are correct.
It is now, so is forcing you to bake them a wedding cake to celebrate their state sanctioned ‘love’.
Typical of the distortion of civil rights by the modern left.
If marrying someone of the same gender as you is a “civil right,” then so is any and every other perversion also, right? As long as both parties agree, isn’t that how the mantra goes? The inmates are running the asylum.
Slavery was properly abolished within the framework of the Constitution by means of an amendment.
Segregation, on the other hand, was not properly abolished within the framework of the Constitution imo. Instead, although their hearts were arguably in the right place, anti-segregation “laws” were wrongly legislated from the bench by activist judges. And the reason that such judges got away with doing so is because parents are not making sure that their children are being taught the difference between legislative and judicial powers imo.
Also, note that the constitutionally limited power federal government wouldn't have the constitutional authority to legislatively address any civil rights, imo, if it weren't for the ratification of the 14th Amendment. And that amendment only gives Congress the power to strengthen enumerated rights amended to the Constitution by the states.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had (emphasis added).” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
What's going on with a lot of so-called federal civil rights is the following imo. Corrupt federal lawmakers are exploiting low-information voters, voters who have never been taught about the federal government's limited powers. Federal politicians exploit such voters by promising constutionally indefensible federal civil rights, such as abortion and gay marriage, to get themselves elected imo.
The proper civil rights legislation should have barred an unreasonably high test/cost for voting, holding political office, or for owning property legally obtained. That is it. A business owner, as objectionable as this is, should have every right to bar ANYONE he wants from his business, or relegate any class of people, for any reason, to a specific location. That is freedom. The abused "civil rights act" was the antithesis of freedom.
Can you imagine serving and EATING a cake that you had forced someone to bake for you????? Not me!!!
It also seems that a baker could only sell cakes that appeal to opposite sex couples and still comply with those discrimination laws.
I mean can a homo walk into a McDs and demand a fruit salad that's not on menu?
Can you imagine serving and EATING a cake that you had forced someone to bake for you????? Not me!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.