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Message: <blockquote data-quote="71buickfreak" data-source="post: 2831987" data-attributes="member: 8373">And I say bull. You can have freedom, but that does not mean you can infringe on someone else's freedom either. You can be free and not be allowed to discriminate against people for things they cannot control such as race, color, gender, origin, and sexual orientation. Civil rights do not infringe on your rights, they ensure equal rights for all. That is part of what makes this country free. You are free to live your life as you wish so long as you don't infringe on the rights of others. Refusing to sell/rent to someone who is gay, black, jew, muslim, etc is infringing on their right to buy/rent a home. If they are otherwise qualified to do so, and your only reason for saying no is because you don't like gays, blacks, jews, muslims, etc, then you are part of the problem. You can't do that. This is what the entire civil rights movement was about. Would you rather go back to segregation and whites-only water fountains? We live in a community, a society. This is not anarchy where it is every man for themselves. I think you misunderstand what the principles of what this country was founded on.</blockquote>