I think I’ll pass on the celebration.
Barry Goldwater voted against it, not out of any racial bias but because he understood that this opened the door to federal prosecution of what amounts to thought crime.
Freedom used to mean that you had the right to voice and hold beliefs that your political betters think is anathema.
Actually freedom still does mean that- you just do it today at your own peril.
Say something that violates Politically Correct guidelines and you are very likely to be fired from your job.
Some of us are old enough to remember an America before sensitivity training, minority set asides, affirmative action and racial quotas. All bequeathed to you by what was started in 1964.
“...not out of any racial bias but because he understood that this opened the door to federal prosecution of what amounts to thought crime.”
I wonder if in his wildest imaginations it would be used to force bakers to bake wedding cakes for gays?