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- From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
- Newsgroups: rec.nude
- Subject: Re: Lawsuits (was Re: Excluding Single Males)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:18:30 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- Message-ID: <lltmn6INN4ad@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <jmcging.727195971@digex> <ah40808@pro-harold.cts.com> <jmcging.727556344@digex>
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- In article <jmcging.727556344@digex> jmcging@access.digex.com writes:
- >As much as I like good debate, it is wasting my time to continue to argue
- >the points that have been challanged and won in Maryland courts. All I
- >can say is that we have been to court, challanged much like you propose,
- >and been supported by the court.
- > The proof is in the final product, not the
- >theory. We paid a lot of good money and spent a lot of time on this issue
- >in court and I'll stand by my statements that (so far) have been supported
- >by the courts. Within certain limits (race being the most obvious) a
- >private club can set membership standards any way they see fit.
- ----
- You have to realize that at one point in time, the courts supported
- slavery. At one point in time, the courts supported discrimination
- by race. At one point in time tobacco companies were immune from
- prosecution. Time has changed all of these archaic and provincial
- attitudes.
-
- Just because something has been some particular way in the past or
- even been supported by the courts in the past, doesn't mean one shouldn't
- persistantly address the problem. Persistance does pay off -- just
- ask the fundamentalists who are pushing to have a theocracy -- they are
- making progress in some areas!
-
- Of course the idea of suing a club again and again may have that
- club decide to change it's rule -- or shut down. If it shuts down, and
- there is a demand, then a new club will take its place.
-
- -wat-
- --
-
- :: If pro-choice means choice after conception, does this apply to men too? ::
-