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To: GeronL
Not if the bank robber is black and the card sharp is gay.

But seriously…

Okay let's assume that homosexuality is a behavior and not a condition, not a condition inherited at birth, an assumption which the courts almost certainly will reject but one which we will make now.

What is the constitutional basis for prohibiting a state from requiring citizens to associate with people who exhibit a behavior as opposed people who exhibit a condition? Note the question asks what is the constitutional basis, not what is your common sense basis.

I take it sex (gender) is a condition and not a behavior. How do you justify the law prohibiting people from associating when they are of different genders? How do you justify the law that compels people to associate, such as in the Army, and the police force, in corporations, when they might not wish to associate?

Same question applies to age and many other basis upon which private people and states routinely discriminate.

In other words, I am trying to keep clear of falling into the same trap that I accuse liberals and the Supreme Court of falling into, which is to proclaim a constitutional right because they like the result which fits their agenda.


106 posted on 08/23/2013 3:39:06 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

Courts might reject it but it is reality


107 posted on 08/23/2013 3:49:44 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: nathanbedford

So its okay if a school decides that sodomizes the students is a valid form of sex-ed, that’d be okay? and those who object have no right to disassociate from it?


108 posted on 08/23/2013 3:51:21 PM PDT by GeronL
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