[zoyd]

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.

Roscoe, I think I may have missed your erudition on this idea. Care to take a stab at it? CJ has avoided it like the plague, but an intellectual giant like yourself probably has a good answer for this dilemma.

[Roscoe]

If the Boy Scouts owned an apartment building and rented out units to the general public, they would be required to make the apartments available to applicants without regard to their races.