Force Isn’t Freedom
28th February 2014
Freeberg puts The Arizona Kerfuffle in a nutshell.
Sorry Sulu. Your Facebook updates are a lot of fun, and nothing against your sexual preference but you’re wrong on this one. In fact, Arizona would be a great place for the silliness to finally stop.
There is: Nobody should force me to pour milk on my corn flakes when I happen to prefer orange juice and vodka on my corn flakes. And then there’s: Help me force this restaurant owner to let me walk into his restaurant and eat my corn flakes. Those are two different things. The first thing is freedom, the second thing is force. Two things. Different. In fact, opposites.
Time for the nonsense to end. You’re not championing choice and freedom anymore, when you’ve started to force other people to accept things they don’t want to.
And that’s all you need to know about that. But he elaborates:
So now we’re left with several realizations that lead to a question. There aren’t too many stories to be offered up about gay people being refused service anywhere, so I don’t think we need to pretend this was about anybody’s “rights.” If we do force that understanding, then we would also have to understand, once and for all, that the gay-rights crusade lately has a cause wholly separate from what they’ve been claiming, and those who have been resisting it were completely correct from the very beginning: It’s about special rights and not equal-rights. Laundromats, bowling alleys, Karate studios, fast food restaurants, liquor stores and bars have always been able to display signs that say “We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To Anyone.” In Arizona, they don’t have that right. And, it seems the loud-crowd is opposed to any business having that right anywhere…where homosexuals are concerned.
The whole ‘gay rights’ thing isn’t about ‘gay rights’ at all, but about ‘gay privileges’. ‘Gay marriage’ is the poster child here: Homosexuals have the same marriage rights as everybody else: To marry someone of the opposite sex. But that’s not what they want; they want to right to marry someone of the same sex, a ‘right’ that no one has except in certain reality-free jurisdictions. All this handwaving about ‘equality’ is meant to pull the wool over the eyes of the Low Information Voter, the same sort of people who believe something is true because they read it in the newspaper.