You know, libraries, like all government entities, are the one thing all residents of the US have the right equal access to. Long before the civil rights acts of 1965, the SCOTUS said this, in cases like United States v. Lovett (1946), and the 14th Amendment. Whether race or creed, or mental, psychological handicap. Lovett dealt with Constitution and its ban on bills of attainder. The 14th Amendment deals with the equal protection of the law. Where I live, the libraries tell people they can't bathe in their bathrooms. Like I tell people, where's the bathtub. Because its about how other patrons are treated, not just according to the rules, but according to unofficial policy too. People who are similarly situated. For example, okay, don't they splash water on their face? Don't you have soap there too? I don't ask that, a federal judge might, in reviewing that policy. (I wouldn't bathe in their filthy bathrooms anyways, because I live in a nice home.) Case law involving public organizations is different than that than it would be for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964 and 1968. It usually gives better protection. And as I said, it protects classes long before legislation does. Like in the case of gays too.
