That’s a line of argument that has its roots in the 1960s Left. I wish conservatives would cease using it but Hannity and Limbaugh keep making it popular. It will backfire on those who use it.
The Republican party has plenty in its own past that makes a mockery of the Bill of Rights. I doubt that 5% of this site has much of an idea of what Reconstruction entailed. The Civil Rights Acts were passed by FDR protege Lyndon Johnson with the assistance of the progressive northeastern GOP establishment and those acts were opposed by Barry Goldwater and other conservatives.
Conservatives of that time understood that giving the national government the power inherent in those bills would permit politicians to dictate what is acceptable opinion and criminalize what authorities dislike. You have to look no further than what is happening to those frat boys in Oklahoma. In another time they would have been regarded as boorish or rude at worst. Now they are nationally reviled thought criminals worthy of having their lives ruined. That is a predictable result of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Celebrate it if you want, I won’t.
Well there is this %-age Freeper who has family understanding of Reconstruction. That’s why true Southerners have an excellent understanding of the abuses of Statists and overbearing central federal govt, regardless of party.
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864
If you own a Business and you don't want to serve anyone for any reason, that should be your Right as a Sovereign American Citizen.
If someone doesn't want my Business because I'm Italian, I go to the guy that loves his Italian Customers and the Money they bring him.
The Gun to your Head idea that the Civil Rights Act instituted is clearly Unconstitutional, but here we are, the PC States of America.