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To: TimF who wrote (596)	6/9/2005 4:54:55 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541490

There is certainly no easy formula to differentiate between freedom of association and equal access under reasonable circumstances. You and I will differ because I do believe in an important standard of positive rights, one of which (to me) is the right to freedom of discrimination from arbitrary standards. I know that you can give me 15 examples of private club situations where there could be grounds for an apparently arbitrary exclusion - no one has an inherent right to be liked, for example, especially if someone is intrinsically a pain in the ass. But for me, sexual preference and lifestyle would not be an acceptable reason. We can agree to disagree.