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Originally Posted by filtherton
I, for one, and shocked and outraged that religious groups aren't allowed to commit unlawful discrimination in their capacity as landlords... I am fairly certain that the next logical step will be for satan to sue the church for being a bunch of meanyheads.
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I'm with the board's status quo on Prop 8, and I'm far from shocked, but I'm about as outraged as I can be about something that probably won't ever affect me - unless it does so positively. The landlord should absolutely be able to discriminate against homosexuals. Or drug users. Or black people. Or cable news pundits. Or Carlos Mencia fans. It's his property. He's entitled to be an idiot with it. Most issues are pretty complex, with hidden and obvious nuances. This is not one of those issues.
(I do not mean to place homosexuals, black people, and drug users on the same level as those other two, by the way.)
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
You can't sue an exclusive club for not allowing you in for your believes, skin color or who you sleep with.
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And this would be sufficient if it were a simple process to become an 'exclusive club' and if no property owner were barred from the process.
In other words, if that part of civil rights dogma lost all its teeth.