[untenured]

If a landlord doesn't want to rent to these people, he should have that right. If an employer doesn't want to hire them, he should have that right, too. But when the ideologues chime in on how people have no right to determine what kind of a society they are to live in and what the laws should say, or that religious have no 1st Amendment right to exercise their religion which includes the formation of the larger family, then we part company.

Your statement seems contradictory, although perhaps I am not understanding it. Do "people" have the "right" to determine that landlords and employers in fact don't have the right to rent to and hire whom they choose? If so, do they then have the right to decide, if they are so inclined, that the Boy Scouts can't refuse to associate with gays?

Or does the right to hire and employ and choose Scoutmasters as you choose trump the "people's...right to determine what kind of a society they are to live in"?

It seems to me that the two "rights" cannot both simultaneously exist.

[freeeee]

does the right to hire and employ and choose Scoutmasters as you choose trump the "people's...right to determine what kind of a society they are to live in"? It seems to me that the two "rights" cannot both simultaneously exist.

Excellent point!!! Thanks for bringing that up.

[Roscoe]

Do "people" have the "right" to determine that landlords and employers in fact don't have the right to rent to and hire whom they choose?

Racial discrimination in housing and employment is illegal.

[steve-b]

Your statement seems contradictory

That's because CJ's statements are contradictory. It's like that "stream of consciousness" thing my English professor was always talking about (and, come to think of it, demonstrating) in class.

[A CA Guy]

You write confusingly, no wonder by number seventy something you had no answer to #13. Try to phrase that better please so someone can get a clue as to what you were thinking.

It seemed like one big run-on thought. Maybe it is the time I read it, but I would love you to restate and ask your question better if you can please?