Roger L. Simon

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Which Party Is This?

August 31, 2004 - 12:14 pm - by Roger L Simon
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2004-09-01 09:44:42

Charlie

I’ll make this simple for you. The Cliff Notes version.

Is it actually your view that people have an inalienable right to free association? Yes or no?

Is it your view that people have an inalienable right to enter freely into contract with other people of their own choosing?

If yes to the above, does that right extend to all people?

If yes to the above, do all people have the right to not associate and not enter into contract with those they dislike?

If yes to the above, what is the likely result of the decisions of millions of individuals making their own judgments about the “rightness” of homosexuality? We already know the answer to this from history. Socially unpopular groups end up being ostracized.

Do you defend the concept of individual freedom, or do you only invoke it as a convenient tool when it is useful to you? Do you endorse the government policy of erasing the concepts of right to free association and contract, where the exercise of these rights has an adverse impact on a government defined group of people?