"The Tea Party candidate who just won the Republican primary in Kentucy believes that business owners, such as Woolworths back a long time ago, have the right to deny service to anyone they don't ahppen to like for whatever reason???"    ~   B-pert

With support from the Tea Party folks, candidate Rand Paul won the Kentiucky GOP primary.

He is a novice in politics and seems to say exactly what he is thinking.

Some members of the public like that, but it will lead to him being roasted alive by professional politicians and their enablers in the professional news media.

What Rand Paul said, in response to what was probably a trap, was that the 1964 Civil Rights act was probably unconstitutional, although he fully supports the goals.

That is a libertarian position and goes with other libertarian views that drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, nudism, and a host of other issues are personal choices and not the job of the federal government to regulate.

Clubs that say "Blacks only" and Mexican restaurants that don't serve Gringos would be against the wishes of most Americans but not illegal under strict Constitutional interpretation. Mr. Paul's statement that business owners have the right to refuse service to people they don't like is probable correct according to the Constitution.

Perhaps we need a few free-thinkers in Congress to get some open debate back in the process.