Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II View Post
Don, I got your point the first time round, no mistake there.

Don't we all have such minorities? Blacks, Jews, feminists, Catholics, Protestants, leftwing and rightwing extremists, Army veterans, all have vocal minorities that push their agenda on behalf of the so-called 'majority' they claim to represent. It's lobbying business as usual.

The funniest thing is not that the ladies would have had no complaints if they had been refused on the ground that they were Jewish. The funniest thing is in that case they might have had the JDL, B'nai Brith and Alan Dershowitz backing them...
I don't think even Alan Dershowitz would make the point that Father Paul McMillan has to perform a wedding service for an orthodox Jewish couple in St. Patrick's. The right to restrict one's rites and rituals to members of the organization is a fundamental tenet of free association.

Where you might actually see Alan and everyone else getting fired up is if instead of a Methodist pavilion, the couple had wanted to use a pavilion owned by the local orthodox synagogue.