The nut says this takes us back to the era of states rights and lets hope that's true. Our constitution is built on states rights. America is supposed to be like the european union is now - a loose collection of independent sovereign countries with a weak federal govt sitting ALONG SIDE the countries not above them.
1. Someone having a different opinion than you doesn't make them crazy.
2. State's rights aren't a good thing. Slavery, Jim Crow, and Segregation are reasons why.
3. While we have made progress, we have a ways to still go. At the University of Alabama, every single fraternity and sorority is all white. No African Americans are in them in the year 2014. It finally took just last week to vote to be integrated. This in 2014. This was active discrimination of a racial group for joining a student organization at a public university.
That is the reality. That even 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights act of 1964, we had a public university denying access to a student organization based on their race. Just because we have progressed doesn't mean the work will ever be over because there are still people that use racial, gender and socioeconomic discrimination to thwart people's opportunity for a better life.
That's reality.