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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Discrimination Warnings

Ian Ayres

I just published a short article with Jennifer Brown over at AlterNet suggesting a way that the New Jersey legislature might make peace with Supreme Court's decision upholding the boy scouts' right to descriminate. Freedom of association guarantees the right of private groups to discriminate, but the legislature might insist upon informed association.

The state might require that to avoid liability a private association must maintain records of written ackowledgements from each of its members indicating that they are choosing to associate with an organization that retains the option of discriminating on certain bases.

A lot of people couldn't bring themselves to sign such a document.

Comments:

Seems like a dangerous precedent to me. I understand where it's coming from, but it seems of dubious constitutionality and very prone to abuse.
 

I wouldn't get my hopes up: if there was widespread desire among parents for gay scoutmasters, the market would supply it. Don't assume that people who in fact disagree with you are stupid and don't know what they are doing.
 

"And isn't that just a rejection of Dale, dressed up as something new?"

Exactly, it's just groping around for a way to punish them for exercising a right he doesn't approve of.
 

Could a state require groups to "disclose" that they're not patriotic (by the legislature's definition of that term)?
 

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