[312] in peace2
Re: [bostonrnr] Re: Supreme Court Upholds Discrimination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory D Dennis)
Sun Jul 2 13:15:14 2000
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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:12:49 -0400
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From: Gregory D Dennis <gdennis@MIT.EDU>
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That point is irrelevant. The point here is that the right of a private
organization to choose it's own members is an important one. If that right
is relinquished, every all-male or all-female private organization loses
the right to be all-male or all-female. Every ethnic or cultural
organization loses the right to only admit people of their own ethnicity or
race. A quote from an ABCNEWS.com article on the topic "That decision
threatens all groups organized around characteristics of age, sex, race,
religious background, or ethnicity, from the Gay Men's Chorus, the NAACP,
and the AARP, to the Girl Scouts." As long as groups such as these are
completely private organizations and not public accommodations, I believe
they have every right to use any criteria they choose in selecting their
members.
Greg
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