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- From: dmeyers@mal-s1.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers)
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- Subject: Re: Sad Day for Liberty
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:00:28 GMT
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- In <74792@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5254a@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin) writes:
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- > 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.
-
-
- I'm not convinced that using the government as a great blunt
- instrument to beat the heads of the people who don't behave
- in the ways YOU think are proper is any better.
-
- If you don't like a business's practice of discrimination,
- cease to supply that business with your money. Tell them
- why you stopped giving them your money. Tell everyone you
- `know that you stopped patronizing their establishment, and
- why. If the people (public) agrees, then the business
- feels plenty of pressure, without the use of force. If the
- public doesn't agree, and continues to patronize that business,
- then you have lost in a most democratic battle, in which case,
- the public wouldn't have agreed with your law anyway. But
- for a powerful government elite to pass laws which tell you
- what you can do with your private property, and this includes
- your business (who you transact with and whom you employ),
- this looks awful oppressive to me. Worse than some small
- businesses discriminating agains some somewhat ill-defined
- segments of society.
-
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