Larry, save your patronizing shit for someone who wants to hear it. I know you like to impress us all with your name dropping and the fact that you are a JD, but let me assure you of one thing. I do not need you to come off as some smart ass with a comment like "let's simplify this". If seems to me that if you had such a good handle on the law you espouse, you would be practicing it. Now, I am sorry if that comes off shitty, but one good turn, eh.

You have no need to answer a question with a question. I understand completely about the civil rights laws and the injustices that spawned them. I have spent my life, a bit of my freedom, and a little blood in the fight for the rights of all people. I get it. I also have fought, and will continue to fight on behalf of the civil rights of Gay/Lesbian folks. There is no excuse for a system which condones systematic discrimination on any person on the basis of what they were born to be. So no lectures are needed by me from you about the struggle. I know this might be hard for you to believe, but there are probably a number of folks on this forum that have spent as much time, or more, as you in fighting on behalf of the civil rights of any number of groups.

Back to the issue. If you believe so strongly that this judge is wrong, then put your money where your mouth is and carry on the fight. But as of now, better barristers than you have found that given the evidence and the way it is run, the AOH has the right to run its parade and is within the laws and statutes of NYC, and the State of New York.

Is it right? NO, emphatically NO. Is it legal. Yes. That was my point before, and is now. Does the word obfuscation mean anything to you.

Mick