[a fool in paradise]

Here's the weirdest one I have seen in a while. It is now illegal in New York City, through a bureaucratic regulation not passed by the city council, for a bartender to refuse to serve a woman because she's pregnant.

Card the fetus, no ID? not 21? NO DRINK.

[a fool in paradise]

The hottest new fad in nondiscrimination law is protection for convicted felons. Most of us don't think that being a murderer or rapist is a status deserving of protection but then against most of us don't work for the Obama Administration. Last month, the US Department of Housing issued a decree saying that refusing to rent to a prospective tenant on account of a criminal record may violate the Fair Housing Act. Actuality, it doesn't. The act prohibits discrimination based on race but not on felony conviction. The Department maintains that discrimination against felons is de facto discrimination against racial minorities. So there you have it folks--Democrats think minorities are a bunch of criminals. And we're the racist ones?

Certain felons are restricted by government as to where they may even live (etc. x number of feet within a school).

[11th Commandment]

I wish the Libertarians would put up a serious candidate. Gary Johnson is a fine person, I have met him a few times, but not serious about public office. On the other hand, Austin Petersen is serious. Libertarian without the nuttiness or the “Paul” arrogance.

[Buttons12]

Just saying "I don't want to" ought to suffice.

It suffices for doctors and lawyers.

[a fool in paradise]

Nondiscrimination laws are now being used to force private businesses to allow men to use the ladies' room. That's what Houston's HERO was about, as well as Charlotte's recent law which was preempted by the state of North Carolina, which may in turn be preempted by Obama's dictatorial powers. The Obama Administration's wacky position isn't even that we should integrate bathrooms, only that each of us should have the freedom to self-select which group we belong to.

Houston's "HERO" was about that and so much more, thirty someodd pages about a "panel" that would try local businesses if they ere charged (on private claim) of being politically incorrect. Tribunals to push liberalism. If there is a criminal or civil charge to make, take it to the courts, don't erect new systems of socialist justice.

[wintertime]

I used to be an active member of the Libertarian Party. I finally decided that they would be **far** far** far*** more effective and powerful if they were a club similar to the National Rife Association.

[AndyJackson]

This is a terribly written article. It is really horrible.

What is the point? Really, man!

That laws prohibiting private discrimination are an abomination? Well write about that.

Or that Gary Johnson doesn't get your point - whatever the F that is?

Or this - "Unlike Governor Johnson's silly scenario involving an electricity company shutting off power for religious reasons"

That is actually not so silly. If I, a private business, can argue that I should not bake a wedding cake for gays over a religious disagreement, why can I, a private utility, not deny them electric power on the same basis>

There is a difference, e.g. natural and government recognized monopolies, but that alone would make a good essay - not this muddled kitchen midden of garbage you are wasting everyone's time trying to figure out.

A lot of us are actually libertarian in bent and have to live with the fact that libertarians are subject to a lot of derision, well earned, because of the nutty hangers on. You are doing nothing to dispel that view.

[Objective Scrutator]

The Libertarian Party is a party which likes to brag about how they supported sodomite marriage in the 70s, so I’m not surprised at all that they are more interested in catering to those people instead of a free market philosophy. Their party platform has, for the longest time, pushed the open borders nonsense as well.

Look to the Constitution Party if you want a decent and (as viable as can be) third party.

[HamiltonJay]

The Libertarian party is useless as long as it keeps being disingenuous about abortion.

If you can use your “liberty” as a justification to deny another person their most fundamental rights, then you using liberty as a justification for oppression, which is the complete antithesis of liberty.

As long as the Libertarian party continues to believe a person can deny another person their fundamental right to life and claim that their liberty gives them that right, they are being intellectually dishonest and bastardizing the very concept of liberty.

I have never seen in my entire life any libertarian address this complete insanity that their “party” embraces.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Libertarians have this weird idea that rules shouldn’t be enforced on anybody. They’re the most gutless people ever.