Matt Welch, on the lynch mob against the pizzeria. Also, Scott Ott.
I’ll have my own thoughts on the anti-Christian fascists in Indiana later, at PJMedia.
[Update a while later]
[Update later morning]
Tim Cook’s hypocrisy on Indiana.
[Update early afternoon]
Ace takes on Bill Quick in an epic rant.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Libertarians must stand up for religious liberty.
Absolutely.
I get so tired of people saying that one person refusing to work for another is “Jim Crow.” Jim Crow refers to a set of laws, prohibiting people from associating with other races. Compelling people of different races to associate is just as bad, and for the same reason. It isn’t anyone else’s business who I do or don’t associate with. And no one else has the right to point a gun at me and tell me to do either one.
If they continue to do it, they may face a gun pointing back at them.
I eagerly await the day that JayZ and Tom Petty can be forced to perform concerts for Republican politicians.
Whatever happened to being able to believe different things about what marriage is? My lefty friends used to think some pretty crazy stuff about marriage and they still do but it would be nice if they let other people have different beliefs.
Not kidding about the epic rant, and I agree with it. I remember seeing signs in restaurants that read, “proprietor reserves right to refuse service to anyone”. This wasn’t during Jim Crow. In fact, this was usually in places that served alcohol and was there to cut people off who had too much. But it was odd to me, because why would any business be forced to provide service to someone they did not want to serve. It may not be slavery, in that they are being paid, but if I’m compelled to work because someone pays me; I’ve lost some rights and freedoms.
I made a greatly misunderstood point on another comment thread elsewhere that underscores your concerns, Leland. Black people rightly regard being forced to pick cotton on a white guy’s plantation as immoral. That’s true whether they are “paid” or not. Slaves, after all, received room and board, which the IRS would treat as compensation. So why don’t we do that? Because it’s wrong, that’s why. It violates the sovereignty of those individuals, who have the right to live their own lives. And that includes the right to work – or not work – for whomever they agree to work for. Including themselves.
Your point makes sense to me, MfK.