Social progress rollbacks

[quadraginta]

Bob seems quite consistent in his views so I would say he would never support a government enforced segregation. But if people wish to free associate in such a way that segregation happens to be the outcome that would be fine, given his ideology.

On a personal level I would also say that is not an outcome he would wish for.

"If wishes were horses ..."

We already know what the outcome was before the government enforced integration.

Wishing that it would be different without such prohibitions flies in the face of the facts.

 

[quadraginta]

It's very narrowly targeted, it's only about allowing discrimination based on objecting to same sex marriage or sex outside of marriage. The businesses won't be allowed to discriminate based on race, sex, religion, etc. From the link:

That version was.

With today's new expression of rabid right wing-nut conservative exuberance and their demonstrated penchant for legislative overreach whenever they think they can get away with it (or even when they know they can't), is there any reason to think such an amendment would stay exactly the same as it was originally?

Look at NC-HB2 if you want an example. (And I'm not referring to the "bathroom bill" parts.) It is an unabashed legislative denial of the right to judicial recourse for virtually all minority groups. Passed in a dead-of-night special legislative session because they could. Because they had control of the state executive and legislative branches. And a conservative leaning state Supreme Court didn't present much of a prospect of deterrence.

The question before us is whether or not there is any rational reason that such conservatives will behave any differently or show anything resembling restraint with a three branch sweep of governmental control at the Federal level. Frankly I can see no reason to think that they would. They haven't ever before, with a whole lot less power.

 

[ponderingturtle]

"If wishes were horses ..."

We already know what the outcome was before the government enforced integration.

Wishing that it would be different without such prohibitions flies in the face of the facts.

Which is why things are great now, we have so much de facto segregation that we don't need government enforced segregation.