re: Once Gay Rights Are Fully Recognized...What Is The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

Here is another potential "civil right" I could see pushed in the future:

The right not to work, but to receive government assistance.

Right now, even though more people are receiving assistance from the government than ever before, there is still a stigma associated with being a welfare recipient or food stamp recipient or Medicaid recipient, etc.

I could see a movement, especially from the left, to make this a life style choice and allow it to be perfectly permissible and protected.

We have already seen efforts to drug test welfare recipient or to limit the types of foods that food stamps are valid for shot down as being discriminatory, both legislatively and in the courts.

Truth be told, there should probably also be very strict diet restrictions placed on medicare/Medicaid recipients as well.

Hell, it is even considered discrimination to make someone show their ID (which is given to them freely) to vote.