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Major_Lennox t1_iu7r3h4 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Jewish persons could not hold public office in Maryland until 1826 by synonyco

I don't think that's right:

> Marcy Frost, an employment attorney at Moss & Barnett, says it all depends on the word "private".

> "If you are truly a private club, and not open to the public, the answer is generally, yes, you're allowed to discriminate," said Frost.

> Why?

> "On the theory we have a Constitutional right of freedom of association," she said.*

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