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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by DDDDave
I agree with most everyone else that in the case of private businesses, they are free to serve whomever they choose, to their own financial detriment.
And to add to the discussion re: residential landlord issues. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 included a section concerning Fair Housing. The Act has been added to and clarified over the years and currently says:
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents of legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability).
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Interesting since the familial status part seemed to escape that township who stated that the couple needed to be married in order to be within the law, AND passed a new city ordinance stating as such.
damn can't find the thread now....
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