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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (77297)	10/10/2003 5:58:01 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If you understand statutory construction, you will know that the legislature is given great deference and is only overturned if there is no way to read a statute to avoid a constitutional violation. What constitutinal right is being claimed here? Not freedom of religion -- Mojo has explicitly stated that this is not a religious issue. Not freedom of association -- that doesn't apply to the commercial arena. (The reason the boy scouts are allowed to exclude homosexuals is because they are a private organization, not a business. If they had been found to be a business or a public accomodation, they would have lost that case.) Not the right to privacy -- again, when you open a business you lose your privacy rights. What's the constitutional issue?