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Originally posted by MagiK:
And what would happen if the private establishment banned blacks from entering? Apartheid mk III?? The rights to exclusion are nonsense.
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Private clubs - where you pay membership - can still ban blacks -- q.v. many golf courses (yes, still). Civil Rights Act is the ONLY thing that prevents a bar from banning blacks. Again, the constitution does not disallow me from being prejudice, rather it is a bar to the government making laws that discriminate.
Using fair logic, we make it up to the OWNER of the bar to decide whether smoking is allowed. Then, we BAN smoking outside, where it can affect anyone traversing the public property. This I would be more supportive of. Telling a pub owner what he must or must not allow is a sort of tyranny.
A night club can refuse you entrance if it does not like your shirt or the size/shape of your butt. Living in NYC I am sure you realize this. Now, under the law, it can still do this, but it must not allow smoking inside. This is absolute idiocy. Either the club owner owns his private land or he does not.
[edit] And, the club can still install all the annoying FOG MACHINES it wants!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img]
[ 05-13-2003, 12:57 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]