From AA
Anyone May Attend A.A. Open Meetings Anyone may attend open meetings of A.A. These usually consist of talks by a leader and two or three speakers who share experience as it relates to their alcoholism and their recovery in A.A. Some meetings are held for the specific purpose of informing the nonalcoholic public about A.A. Doctors, members of the clergy, and public officials are invited. Closed discussion meetings are for alcoholics only.
The AA aspect is the one discussed in the article, but I think the law is uniformly bad
the fact they are addicts should not give them special benefits over non-addicts anymore than tobacco addicted smokers should not have more benefits than nonaddicted people.
Most meetings are closed, not "open meetings."
tobacco addicted smokers should not have more benefits than nonaddicted people.
Nor less. If you read my last post, I'm opposed to government prohibiting legal activity on private property. That goes for smokers and non-smokers. And groups meeting on private property should not have their legal activities dictated by government.
It's a bad law. And if they can exempt people one group at a time, that's fine, it's more rights than they have now.