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I have to disagree that Civil Rights legislation and court decisions along the same lines are compatible with liberty and conservative principles. Court decisions have arrogated enormous power to the judiciary that has used this power to socially engineer a "more just society" attempting to force individuals into egalitarian patterns. Patterned principles of social justice treats people as if they were interchangeable cogs in a machine, which is itself unjust. The same rationale has been used in efforts to strip religion out of public life in the U.S. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has argued that Roe v. Wade should have been written from an egalitarian basis. Cases involving homosexual "rights" have been decided in these same terms. There is no end to judicial activism in pursuit of equality of result on a number of fronts once we have turned down this path.

But even in the case of the Civil Rights Act, which was passed by the U.S. Congress, the power of the Federal government has increased in efforts to pursue equality that includes a host of intrusive attempts to equalize life for all people. These actions include constant monitoring of businesses, state & local governments, & universities. Many of these efforts have destroyed neighborhoods, public schools, and college sports programs. For a discussion of numerous infringements of personal liberty based on Civil Rights legislation, please see
*You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws* by David E. Bernstein. Prof. Bernstein teaches law at George Mason University.

Government mandated integration is grossly inconsistent with the right of the individual to freedom of association. This liberty provided the justification for the Boy Scouts being allowed to determine their own membership, and as left liberal members of the Supreme Court observed at the time, is inconsistent with other anti-discriminatory rulings of the Court. Civil Rights laws also undermine localism and a natural evolution of social institutions.