If they are allowed to rent the pool for a private function from time to time that's fine with me...but as I recall, recently a church was disallowed the same privilege because they wanted to use the pool for baptisms. The city disallowed the rental on the basis that it would be public endorsement of a religion. So what we have are city officials being hypocrites.
we might try to find that article...
I disagee. There is a difference between a group of people who belong to a church having a swim party, and an actual religious ceremony beieng conducted.
I don't have a problem with this, as long as they pay the same as every other group.
It isn't the same pool, but even if it were, there's no hypocrisy. Muslim women aren't performing religious rituals in the pool, they're just swimming. We can argue that religious groups should have access to public facilities, but Christians aren't being discriminated against in this instance. If there were an Islamic equivalent to baptism, it, too, would be prohibited.
its the law of unintended consequences. with a diverse society any law or application of laws will have unintended consequences.
parsing the application of law is actually against the basic theory of American Law.....either there is equal protection under the Law, and equal application of the Law, or their isn't.
this is now destined to conflict with Islamic Law, which sets different stantards for men and women.