Free Speech for We, but not for Thee

Good news at last!  To a guy like me who was black-balled by every fraternity and student association on campus in my college days, including the Red Cross and Soup Kitchen Services student groups (it's a long story), the Supreme Court's latest is heartening.

It seems that Ms. Justice Ginsburg is full-throated in her desire to protect college student's free speech rights.  So, in a Supreme Court ruling handed down on Monday, she is unequivocal about the free speech rights of a campus Christian organization at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, which advocated against homosexuality. Her only problem with the whole thing was that the group also limited its membership to heterosexuals and .... get this .... Christians.  This, she opines, is not free speech at all, but just rank discrimination, and certainly the University could refuse to charter the group as a student organization.  She states: "[The University] may reasonably draw a line in the sand permitting all organizations to express what they wish but no group to discriminate in membership."

This is nothing short of brilliant.  She is able to reach down into her boundless intellect and discern a heretofore undiscovered distinction between a group and the members of that group.  A campus group is an entity which has opinions and has the constitutional right to freely express itself without hindrance by the University.  The membership of the group, however, can be dictated by the University, presumably because there is no necessary connection between the opinions of any member of the group and the group itself.  Thus, the Neo-Nazi Party might be composed of racist neanderthals, or it might be a rare alliance between the Amish and Quakers.  How can we know?

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Given this sparkling insight, there is simply no basis for any group to exclude anybody.  Which, as I said at the top, is very good news.  My sister's boy, Joshua, raised an orthodox Jew, tells me the Muslim Student Association at his college has fantastic work-out and dining facilities.  He's putting on his best yarmulke and going over to join up tomorrow. I just got off the phone with Cousin Fester's boy, and encouraged him in his desire to pledge a sorority.  "Heck, join three of 'em.  Most of us can't increase our odds of scoring with the fairer sex, so the best bet is to increase the pool of talent." 

If the Supremes had only been prescient about all of this in my day - what a lark it would have been!  Feeling a bit bored? Why not visit the members only lounge of the student ACLU chapter and drop a few casual remarks in favor of police brutality?  Or take your after dinner coffee and visit the Baptist Students Association inner sanctum with some wimsical cartoons from the Man-Boy Love Association quarterly.  Or why not become a member of the University Board of Trustees?!  Then I could have addressed one of my pet peeves-runny eggs and the lack of Mimosa's on the school cafeteria's breakfast menu.

It occurs to me, however, that there is some irrational discrimination going on right under Ms. Justice Ginsburg's nose.  Why should Justice G and her 8 friends be the only ones allowed on the Supreme Court?  Such discrimination against the rest of us is ugly to look at, especially when it's our country's highest Court.  I say we all march up there right now and take a seat at the big bench. 

You do what you like, but I got dibs on a seat next to the Wise Latina. There's just something about foreign chicks ....