Here's a thought experiment. Consider the following statute:
Section 1. All transportation providers carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the heterosexual and homosexual passengers, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger conveyance, or by dividing the passenger conveyance by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations. No person or persons shall be permitted to occupy seats in coaches, other than the ones assigned to them, on account of their sexual orientation.
Section 2. The officers of such transportation provider shall have power and are hereby required to assign each passenger to the coach or compartment used for the sexual orientation to which such passenger belongs; any passenger insisting on going into a coach or compartment to which by orientation he or she does not belong, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars, or in lieu thereof to imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty days, and any officer of any transportation provider insisting on assigning a passenger to a coach or compartment other than the one set aside for the orientation to which said passenger belongs, shall be liable to a fine of five hunred dollars, or in lieu thereof to imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty days; and should any passenger refuse to occupy the coach or compartment to which he or she is assigned by the officer of such transportation provider, said officer shall have power to refuse to carry such passenger on his conveyance, and for such refusal neither he nor the company which he represents shall be liable for damages in any of the courts of this state.
Anyone see any problems with this statute?
