Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 21, 2010

Within hours of his resounding victory in Kentucky?s Republican senate primary, Rand Paul ? the ophthalmologist son of Rep. Ron Paul ? came under concerted attack by the custodians of acceptable opinion regarding his views of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Paul has expressed the view that government shouldn?t punish business and property owners who choose to discriminate. This is regarded as a dire heresy by those who believe that government coercion, rather than mutually beneficial commerce and moral persuasion, is the key to better living.

Paul?s position is that business owners willing to absorb the economic costs of discrimination should be free to do so, on the assumption that the market won?t reward business decisions based on bigotry.

In the face of the media onslaught, Paul has equivocated about his view, which is unfortunate. The public mood is congenial to a debate over the merits of open-ended, totalitarian federal micro-management of private affairs. This is why the sycophantic scribes in the state-centered media focused their wrath on Rand Paul.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.