Yes, thank you for pointing out that we have some laws which exceed Constitutional authority.

So, there were these white kids and black kids arguing over who was going to sit next to whom, and so on.

The bus driver, he's had enough of the bickering and says to the kids, "Look! I'm tired of this stuff! Nobody's black or white on this bus! You're all... green! Y'got that? You're all GREEN!"

"Now... all you light green kids go to the front of the bus, and all you dark green kids go to the back of the bus..."

If they came in full KKK regalia, the owner could refuse service on the grounds of inappropriate dress, justified on the same grounds as "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Sevice." ;)

It is if she accepts the sexual advances of someone else.

Suppose she spurns my advances but accepts the advances of a man who happens to be of another race? That's racism, isn't it?

The problem with saying that rights come from God is that they are not written down anywhere except in legislative documents. The Bible makes no mention of rights, nor does any other religious holy book. If rights are truly pre-existing, how do you know what they are?

I guess there's no Wal-mart in that town...

I don't see how it could be a 'flaw' in her philosophy, since, per her philosophy, there's no way for her to avoid opposing it.

You want to guarantee the perpetuation and survival of bigotry? Force people to associate with others when they don't wish to. Resentments will build.

Actually, fascism declared homosexuality to be illegal, punishable by death. This is about as far away from that as you could possibly get.

Personally, I would have filed a lawsuit and then gone to a different bakery. I wouldn't want any food products produced under such circumstances, but that doesn't mean I'd let the baker/cook get away with discrimination. Financial compensation is a sastisfactory method of justice.

Pleasure is NOT THE GOAL.

Two animals may fuck because they want the high, just as an animal may shoot up heroin because he wants the high, That doesn't make pleasure the PURPOSE or the FUNCTION of the ACT.

I guess I have to teach bio 101 to you. See, daddy gets excited, and puts his thingy in mommy's special place, and pretty soon the drugs are released in his brain and he squirts his sperm into her.
IF she's in her fertile period (which in most mammals occurs during certain parts of the year), there will be an egg available for the sperm to invade. The resulting zygote becomes embedded in the wall of mommy's special place, and 9 months later she pushes out a baby.

This is the function of these organs. This is the function of the desire, of the endorphin rush, the addiction. To perpetuate the species. That it is not 100% successful all the time is a tribute to the sloppy nature of evolution.

You don't need to invoke God, though I am amused that you feel comfortable heaping scorn on religion but get your back up when I describe the true nature of homosexuality.

Did God create hunger? What is the function of hunger? To induce one to seek food and to eat. What is the purpose of the feeling of satiation? Again, to induce one to seek food and to eat.

This does not require divine intervention on the part of the Almighty. Hunger, thirst, lust, love, hate, envy, remorse, compassion, fear, cold, heat, loneliness, fellowship... all these feelings can be the inevitable result of the evolutionary process. If one doesn't ever get hungry,one doesn't eat, one dies. If one doesn't ever get thirsty, one doesn't drink, one dies. If hunger is particularly unpleasant for one, one is more intent upon seeking food. If sex is pleasurable for one, one seeks it more frequently and intently.

It doesn't matter why one has kids; evolution doesn't care about why, just so it happens.

My position assumes nothing about any intelligent designer.

You would have to pass a law declaring schizophrenia to be a legally protected status first, which is unlikely to happen.

Well, if you're an employee of Target, the management could certainly compell you to wax the floors. I suppose you could choose to disobey, but that would result in negative financial consequences of no longer having a job.

Also, the regulations which govern the behavior of an employee must naturally be different from the regulations which govern the employer.

Yes, people can derive a great deal of physical pleasure from masturbation as well... it's not the same thing.

Sure, I'll get out more. Want to visit some BDSM clubs? Maybe we could visit a chapter meeting of NAMBLA? Or we could visit the zoo, if that's your thing.

There's no such thing as homosexual "couples". The children in question have a father, who is male (and who can be made legally responsible for them, in a wry twist of injustice). That they are denied their father is just yet another example of the failing of the mental/emotional illness.

What you are talking about is an application of technology. An application of technology attempting to get around the facts of nature.
A crutch to compensate for mental/emotional crippling.

That you like someone who suffers from homosexuality doesn't cure them. There are mental hospitals filled with people who are loved by someone; it doesn't cure them of their various problems. There are people out on the street with phobias, paranoias, obsessions, fetishes, who are loved by their friends and relatives. Doesn't make the phobias, paranoias, obsessions or fetishes go away.
The same is true of sexual deviancy.

Ayn Rand's stance against the Civil Rights Act was one of the single biggest flaws in her philosophy. The Act was good.

I don't think you understand what discrimination is. A woman who chooses not to return your sexual advances is not discriminating against you.

You cannot have freedom without laws.

So if the woman willingly has sex with her husband or boyfriend, it's okay for you to rape her as she walks down the street?

She can't discriminate between you and her husband, after all.