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What do you call an illegal legal society?

By Alliance Alert

Hannah Shtein writing in The Badger-Herald: "UC Hastings Dean Leo Martinez claims that rejecting members on the basis of sexual orientation is indeed discrimination. Countering this, CLS attorney [Greg Baylor]states that it is not discrimination for a belief-grounded group to require that its members share its core values. Baylor would have an argument if the point at issue was only about belief. But that?s not quite the case. To strengthen his point, the CLS attorney used the hypothetical example of student political groups, comparing the situation to requiring the College Republicans to allow a Democrat to be their leader. I?m not sure what law school this guy went to, but his analogy could use some work. Let?s say groups have a right to choose their members based on belief. Beliefs are not something we are born with, but are views we come to hold based on an indefinite number of environmental factors, such as home environment, schooling, etc."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).