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RE: Remember waaaaaaay back when.... they just wanted the right to be left alone...?

The LGBT crowd has a larger goal — Acceptance of their actions and lifestyle as NORMAL BEHAVIOR.

Remember Barry Goldwater? The man was not a racist and in fact helped, employed and defended a lot of blacks from discrimination when he was in office. However, he refused to support the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because he was concerned that it would step on the Freedom of Businesses to decide for themselves who they want to do business with. His idea of Freedom of Speech includes the freedom of association and also the freedom to be a bigot.

His argument was that if a business is foolish enough to refuse to service a person because of his race or ethnicity, LET THEM HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO IT. He believes that other businesses will exist to take away the profits of the bigoted business. In other words, he believed that the Free Market will sort it all out.

The end result is of course LBJ succeeded in painting him not only as a war monger, but as a racist who hankers for segregation and the KKK. Goldwater lost by a landslide when he ran against LBJ.

so, here we are today, extending the Civil Rights Act not only to blacks but also to LGBT who equate themselves with blacks. In other words today, if you deny your business to someone because of their orientation ( really because you do not want to participate or celebrate their actions ), it is equivalent to denying your business to someone because of the color of his skin.