| | Exactly! That's precisely where this leads -- just as Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was ostensibly designed to prohibit racial discrimination, has lead inexorably to racial discrimination mandated by the government. Whereas the original intent of Title VII was to make racial discrimination illegal in private business, the statute has subsequently been interpreted to justify affirmative action, which makes racial discrimination mandatory in private business. And this, despite assurances by proponent's of the statute that no such thing as quotas could ever be inferred from it.
Consider, for example, the "famous last words" of Senator Hubert Humphrey when the Civil Rights Bill was being debated in Congress: "Contrary to the allegations of some opponents of this title, there is nothing in it that will give any power to the Commission or to any court to require hiring, firing, or promotion of employees in order to meet a racial 'quota' or to achieve a certain racial balance...."
Even more outrageous is that affirmative action violates explicit disclaimers included in Title VII itself. Section 703 (j) reads as follows:
"Nothing contained in this title shall be interpreted to require any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee subject to this title to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the race, color, religion, sex or national origin of such individual or group on account of any imbalance which may exist with respect to the total number of percentages of persons of any race, color, religion or sex, or national origin employed by any employer . . . ."
Once the government can violate freedom of association in order to prevent discrimination, it can do so in order to mandate discrimination, even to the point of perverting and explicitly transgressing its very own civil rights statutes!
Now we have anti-discrimination law being invoked to prohibit people of a particular religion from advertising for others of the same religion as roommates on the grounds that the ad excludes people of other religions. So, we shouldn't be too surprised if a personals ad seeking people of a particular race or ethnicity is declared illegal on the grounds that it excludes people of other races and ethnicities. Be careful what you wish for -- or pass into law -- you may get it in ways that you never imagined!
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