Posted on 03/27/2003 2:29:48 PM PST by laureldrive
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:50:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Berkeley's policy is that everyone pays a berthing fee. However, it will waive your berthing fee if your organization is non-profit AND conforms to the city's own standards for non-descrimination.
Berkeley does not prohibit any organizations from berthing there.
Would you be as upset about the city's policy if their non-descrimination criteria were the same but did not include homosexuality? Do you feel that the city should have to waive the fee for, say, the KKK?
This marina fee issue does not make homosexuals a protected class. That's just a figment of your imagination.
What part of "right" don't you understand? The BSA has a right to discriminate against homos. The SCOTUS has said so. They don't need a "chance" at a waiver any more than they needed "access." The BSA has the right to get everything that any other organization gets, period.
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They don't meet the requirements for FREE BERTHING. So they must pay a fee to use a Berkeley (owned by Berkeley taxpayers, even the gay ones) asset.
Haha!! Are you purposely debating with phrases you took from The Shawshank Redemption?
"Or are you really that "challenged"?"
Acting like a child isn't going to help you win any arguments. Try harder.
"Bizerkly's "standards" are irrelevant, (besides being an absurd concept)."
Since when is Berkeley law irrelevant in Berkeley?
"Federal law is what matters."
If Berkeley law runs contrary to Federal law, there is an issue, yes. That's what they're going to court over. Personally, I think Berkeley will win this one.
"You are correct about homosexuals not being a protected class. (Remember "RACE", "SEX" (gender), "NATIONAL ORIGIN"?), and they are not ever going to be a "protected class", ever."
Ok.. maybe you should clean up this last bit a little so it makes sense and get back to me.
"See you in FEDERAL Court."
See you at the MOVIES.
Why do I get the feeling that my childhood was a lot happier than yours?
It makes no difference whether the BSA is a "private group." If Berkeley denies the BSA a public benefit while extending the same to other similar groups, then Berkeley is guilty of discrimination.
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The only requirement the BSA doesn't meet is the one that says they must allow homos in their membership. Since the SCOTUS has ruled the BSA doesn't have to admit homos, Berkeley doesn't have the right to enforce that ideology upon the them. Get it?
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Or force that ideology upon them.
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