[brownie]

While I generally agree with the points you are making, I do have one comment. Quite a bit can be lumped into the very broad term "non-discrimination", where does society draw the line as to what kind of discrimination is acceptable? For instance, should the sea scouts have to allow admitted pedophiles into their organization? If not, they are discriminating against pedophiles. What about nudists? Same thing.

At some point, society as a whole is going to decide that not all discrimination is bad. Some types of discrimination make sense. For instance, I don't personnally believe women should serve in the military. There are arguments that can be made both ways, but if society decided women shouldn't serve in the military, I don't believe such would be "bad" discrimination.

In the same vein, I don't believe that racial profiling is necessarilly evil, depending upon how it is used. For instance, should security at airports be focused mostly on middle eastern looking men? I believe they should.

BAck to the case at hand, I don't have a problem with this type of discrimination, but believe that each locality and state should be able to determine on its own whether to make this type of discrimination "Illegal". Here, Berekely has apparently done so, and your points above make sense.

That was a long rant to agree with you.

- Brownie