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To: Dale Baker who wrote (598)	6/9/2005 6:57:26 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541518

There is certainly no easy formula to differentiate between freedom of association and equal access Equal access is to public facilities. There is no right to equal access to private facilities. No one has the right to equal access in your home. I agree that the distinction can be fuzzy around the edges where private organizations have become such institutions that we think of them as public, like the Boy Scouts, but the conceptual distinction is clear. (Yeah, I know you don't like this abstract stuff. <g>) Private clubs are private. If they're being jerks about their membership requirements, then they deserve to be shamed for it, but the government forcing them to accept members is crossing the line. You and I will differ because I do believe in an important standard of positive rights I agree with Tim on the negative and positive rights. I think you're headed down a very dangerous path when you construe positive rights out of whole cloth. The only positive rights we have IMO are those that are written into law.