TheProgressivePatriot
Gold Member
In business and places of public accomodation. The issue is discrimination. Never heard of that?Bla Bla Bla. You have said it all before. The fatal flaw in your reasoning is that only the ones (like you) who want to exclude others have the right to freedom of association, while, at the same time, those who you seek to exclude have no such rights.The constitutional argument has been discussed ad nauseam. Your theory that you are allowed to discriminate based on your right to the freedom of association is bunk. In you private life, yes, but not in business. Not in pblic accomodations.
All rights have limits and when you behave in a way that infringes on anothers rights, you have crossed the line,
What I, and freedom loving people object to is federal government force being used to meddle in the inalienable right of people being free to mutually agree in their contracts and associations, and that includes their social and commercial activities. Federal legislation designed to put the muscle of government in the hands of a "protected class", and without the consent of the governed via a constitutional amendment, has proven to create countless discerning and destructive consequences as I have demonstrated.
Now, with regard to Congress' power and the proposed "Equality Act" ___ which, if made the rule of law would forbid State and American citizens from making distinctions based upon sex ___ under what wording in our federal Constitution has Congress been delegated a power to prohibit, by legislation, state action from making distinctions based upon sex [excluding of course the 19th Amendment], or prohibiting, by legislation, citizens or persons in a state to make distinctions based upon sex in their social or commercial activities? If the authority in question has not been delegated to Congress, then the "Equality Act" would be an exercise of power not delegated to Congress.
Are we not a nation in which our federal government is restricted by the defined and limited powers granted by a written constitution?
JWK
The Equality Act attempts to exercise legislative power proposed under the “Equal Rights Amendment” which was rejected by the American people, and thus, to this degree, the Act is an attempted usurpation of power not granted.
The freedom to force others to associate with you? Never heard of that one.