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To: madg
The Berkeley Marina has almost ONE THOUSAND berths. The Berkeley anti-discrimination policy applies CITY-WIDE (not just to the marina), and was enacted in 1997, YEARS before the SCOTUS ruling.

Good morning!

The actual court cases on this issue (exclusion of homosexuals in the BSA) began in 1990, according to the ACLU. And lambdalegal.org shows the Berkeley anti-discimination ordinance as 11/9/78 so Berkeley in 1997 was merely setting itself up to punish the Scouts by adding the "sexual preference" clause.

Interestingly, the Scouts were first granted the berth in a 1936 deal in which Berkeley got 80,000 tons of rock from a Boy Scout camp in exchange for the perpetual free berth.

It's PC harassment all the way. Maybe the Scouts should ask for their rock back from the Berkeley welshers.

213 posted on 03/05/2003 9:09:28 AM PST by jimt
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