Hi, Stonewall and Biggirl.
I’m burnt out.
Just listening.
I am listening and lurking as well.
It seems to me like a lot of the trouble being discussed now has as its origin
in the bad solution that was applied to solve the racial discrimination problem.
Prior to the creation of the artificial classification of “Public Accommodation”,
all property was classified as either “Private” or “Public”.
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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
TITLE II: INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
SECTION 201.
(a) All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services,
facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation,
as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color,
religion, or national origin.
(b) Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation
within the meaning of this title if its operations affect commerce, or if discrimination or segregation
by it is supported by State action:
-(1) any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests,
other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms
for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence;
-(2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility
principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to,
any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment; or any gasoline station;
-(3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place
of exhibition or entertainment; and
-(4) any establishment (A)(i) which is physically located within the premises of any establishment
otherwise covered by this subsection, or (ii) within the premises of which is physically located any
such covered establishment, and (B) which holds itself out as serving patrons of such covered establishment.
SECTION 202.
All persons shall be entitled to be free, at any establishment or place, from discrimination or segregation
of any kind on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin, if such discrimination or
segregation is or purports to be required by any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, rule, or order
of a State or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
SECTION 203.
No person shall
(a) withhold, deny, or attempt to withhold or deny, or deprive or attempt to deprive, any person
of any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or
(b) intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person
with the purpose of interfering with any right or privilege secured by section 201 or 202, or
(c) punish or attempt to punish any person for exercising or attempting to exercise any right
or privilege secured by section 201 or 202.