Wednesday 18 February 2015

On Another Front


from wnd.com: 'Judge Authorizes 'Personal Ruin' For Christian Florist' - Bob Unruh - Feb. 18
("A judge in Washington on Wednesday authorized the “personal ruin” of a FLORIST
whose Christian faith prevented her from promoting a same-sex wedding [i.e., selling marriage-ceremony flowers to a 'gay' couple, instead, giving them references to other florists for whom it was not against their moral/religious scruples] and who was sued by both the state and the homosexual couple…")

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1) I'm surprised this law hasn't run afoul of the Washington State constitutional law. In any event:
2) This nation was founded on the principle of individual liberty. Not of 'group rights'. As an American citizen, this lady's basic right [to life, liberty and property] is being infringed. She should countersue. I hope Alliance Defending Freedom will consider taking her case to a higher court, on appeal.
'Group rights' are what they have in statist countries. If that.

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Where am I at, specifically, on all of these sorts of things, regarding 'discrimination'?

I believe that there should be all-female businesses - employees and customers - and all-black businesses, and all-Catholic businesses, and all-Japanese businesses, and on and on, in that vein.  The vein of 

individual liberty.  If people want to engage in such enterprise.  It's their business.  Nothing to do with a grown-too-big state. 

What next?  Laws against discriminating against fatties?  Baldies??  Blondes???  

I hope I have made my point.  

The Civil Rights Law of 1964?  I don't know the ins and outs of it.  But I do know, a) that it has been taken far beyond what its proponents said that it meant; and b) that this nation would have been better off if we had left the breakdown of discrimination against blacks to the natural processes of life.  Example:  Branch Rickey.  

Branch Rickey was the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.  For whatever all reasons, he saw the financial potential in there being black baseball players in the major leagues, and signed up Jackie Robinson for his team.  Was he given a hard time for it, from some quarters?  Sure.  And so was Robinson himself.  But they stayed the course.  And the rest is history.

How long would a hotel owner, or restaurant owner, stay in business if they refused the business of a touring baseball team, or basketball team, or football team, or 'big band,' or entertainment troupe, or whatever, with mixed-race players?  The beauty of free enterprise is that there would be entrepreneurs who would fill that gap, and be rewarded for it.  No government mandates.   

You know where government mandates are getting us?  The likes of government-mandated vaccination shots, for whatever first, and then others later.  Never mind the proven downside to vaccines - all the terrible side effects that they cause - and that the pharmaceutical industry has managed not to have to have manufacturer's responsibility for.  Never mind that vaccines are a proven vector for introducing noxious substances into people, even unto their death, because of the development of Big Government.

Individual liberty is the nail, for the want of which a whole world may be lost.  

Think, people.  (And especially you Americans, with the inheritance you were given.)  Think.  

And act accordingly.

While there is still time.

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