Rand Paul

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I finally watched the Rand Paul vs. Rachel Maddow video. Rachel was trying to get Rand to produce a sound bite that proves he's racist by asking him if he supports the segregation of lunch counters. He tried to fend this off by pointing out that if government controls privately own restaurants by stating they serve the public, then law abiding gun owners can override the restaurant owner's request that no guns enter the premises. This was a rather weak rebuttal. Instead, he should have said that he supports the rights of gay bar owners to ban bachelorette parties.

Should gays be forced to provide services for straights if they don't want to? I don't think so. And if the gay bar goes out of business because of this policy, then the free market has spoken.