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In article <1992Nov13.173552.5238@athena.cs.uga.edu> brown@pollux (Daniel Brown) writes:
>In article <k_fqwt#@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
>>Where DO you kids come up with that crap?  You (nor your agent of force,
>>the government) do NOT have the right to tell me what I do with my 
>>property and that includes my business.  That it has been done in
>>the past under the guise of "civil rights" makes it no less wrong.
>>This is all a manifestation of the leftist concept that individual
>>rights and personal property are inherently wrong and therefore must
>>be taxed and controlled by the government.  Perhaps when you enter the
>>real world and attempt to run a business, you will have a slightly
>>different view on the government forcing one set of citizen's beliefs
>>on another.  
>Amen.  The gov't has no right to tell you how to spend your money, and that
>includes when you are hiring an employee.

  Actually, it turns out they do in a certain case which is this:
If your 'business' serves only yourself and a few close friends, then you
have the right to exclude anybody you please. If your business serves the
general public, however, (and as a technicality, does some aspect of its
business over state lines) then you do not have a right to choose which of the
general public you do business with. (To a degree -- You can refuse to do
business with an individual whose conduct is inappropriate (such as shirts &
shoes rules, and the ability to eject someone who's being loud and
obnoxious))

  The question then comes to 'why?" and the answer is: history. We discovered
that you could garuntee blacks equal rights under the law, but if a large
percentage of businesses subsequently refused to do business with them, then
they did not, in reality, have equal rights. And if you can't see how
large percentages of businesses refusing to do business with blacks is
relevant to whether or not a business owner should have the right to do
business with gays, well, oh well.

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William Herrin                         Internet: gt5254a@prism.gatech.edu
      Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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