[Millers Cave]

How do you define free association?

Basically any activity that doesn't involve public accommodation. Churches, scouting, country clubs, social clubs, etc. can and should be able to discriminate based on any reason or no reason. Hotels, restaurants, libraries, public pools, etc. shouldn't.

[Greg F]

Scouting has been under serious attack for over a decade for not allowing gay scoutmasters.

[VxH]

[Basically any activity that doesn't involve public accommodation.]

 

 

 

(7) Public accommodation
The following private entities are considered public accommodations for purposes of this subchapter, if the operations of such entities affect commerce—
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(J) a nursery, elementary, secondary, undergraduate, or postgraduate private school, or other place of education;

 

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(L) a gymnasium, health spa, bowling alley, golf course, or other place of exercise or recreation.

 

 

Maybe I'm misreading the code, but it seems to me that item (J) includes Private schools run by a church.    Do you think private religious schools should be forced to hire homosexual teachers?

 

Item (L) references golf courses and other places of recreation.   You include Country Clubs in your list of entities for whom discrimination should be allowed.   Should a Country Club be forced to give homosexuals access to the club's golf course, swimming pool and shower facilities?

 

 

 

[Greg F]

Hotels, restaurants, libraries, public pools, etc. shouldn’t.
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How about public schools? By your logic they should be required to allow homosexual clubs and activities even if the school board and voters are against it.

I hear you with hotels and trains (personally, I think capitalism does a fine job of getting rid of that sort of discrimination now that jim crow is gone . . . money is money). The problem comes when that legal precedent is applied to gay clubs in school while excluding Christian ones, requiring sex education that is on equal terms for heterosexual and homosexual sex, speech codes that make stating Christian beliefs an offense . . . it all ties together. I do not think the anti-discrimination laws are needed anymore and are doing more harm than good. Yet they are expanding (as all law and bureaucracy does).

Jim Crow is gone . . . laws getting rid of Jim Crow should be gone too.