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To: Lane3 who wrote (77129)	10/9/2003 7:33:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

If we grant conscientious objector status to the conscientiously chaste, does that imply that public beaches might need to provide separate sections for the bikini-averse? Or that the NFL should set up a team of two just for those who are averse to reporters in the locker rooms? Or sex-segregated hospitals? No. There is a difference between allowing Mojo to have consensual interactions and business dealings with his customers under conditions and terms that they both accept, and forcing conditions and terms on an unwilling party. This difference is particularly strong in the NFL case because the NFL is a private business. The hospital may or may not be a private institution. Another distinction is that it provides a service necessary to protect someone's life. Earlier in the conversation some of the "Mojo defenders" where using that difference as justification for requiring that doctors treat either sex. Even if it falls short of justifying that requirement (and I'm not sure that it does), I don't see how it justifies the reverse, a requirement that certain hospitals (or sections of hospitals) treat only one sex. In the case of the public beaches I don't see how even if you accept the right of the "conscientiously chaste" to not perform certain intimate services on someone where there may be sexual arousal, how that would translate to an affirmative duty of the state to create beach areas where they might be safe from such arousal. A closer equivalent would be more the right of a small private beach owner to allow only men or women in to the beach or to have segregated sections, even if he charges for admission to the beach. Tim

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