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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (64809)1/13/2000 9:13:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
Classic SI was acting up, so I had to move to Beta, and my responses are out of order.....

In the case of public accommodations, the judgement was made that the right of association could not be invoked to maintain a system of racial subordination. With certain exemptions (such as a widow renting rooms), discrimination on the basis of race would not be tolerated in commercial dealings. I think that that was a correct decision (I am not a libertarian).
In the case of employment, the employer wields considerable power, especially in smaller towns, and could conceivably use it oppressively to exact conformity to his political or moral tenets. Freedom of association, in that case, would be a cover for invasion of privacy and oppressive meddling.
For example, would it be right for someone who had become a Seventh Day Adventist to promulgate an edict that all members of other denominations would have to convert or lose their jobs? Would it be right for someone to inquire about one's intimate sexual practices with one's wife, in the course of a job interview, and refuse one a job because one deviates from the missionary position? Thus, a line has to be drawn about what is and is not the employer's business.......
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