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Why I'm Teed Off: The chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club defends an all-male club
Wall ST Journal ^ | November 12, 2002 | HOOTIE JOHNSON

Posted on 11/12/2002 4:57:18 AM PST by SJackson

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Motherbear
"Women are just little trouble makers sometimes"

No, dearie, "SOME" women are just little trouble makers sometimes....

See? :)

41 posted on 11/12/2002 8:54:38 AM PST by lepton
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To: SJackson
But from here, it feels like some things are worth defending, and sometimes that means taking a stand. In my mind and in my heart, I know this is one of them.

Way to go Hootie!

42 posted on 11/12/2002 11:08:23 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: Darlin'
...tell her it's "about choice."

EXCELLENT!!!!

44 posted on 11/12/2002 4:46:34 PM PST by mommybain
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To: SJackson
From Deroy Murdock at National Review:

If women penetrate Augusta, how will they bar males from all-female institutions?

Start with the 68 member-campuses of the Women's College Coalition. Such schools as Barnard, Mount Holyoke and Smith offer top drawer, liberal arts instruction. Men need not apply.

With 296 chapters in America, Canada, Mexico and England, the Junior League's active, dedicated associates perform community service projects. Its website explains that they also "share ideas and build networks for information exchange" when they gather. There are some 193,000 Junior League members - not one of them male. Women even have their own golf course, albeit abroad. Since its 1924 launch, the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto has had only female members. As Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly discovered, men may play there, but only when invited by members. Women sneered at Reilly, who was stunned by the separate but unequal amenities for male guests: a poorly appointed locker room and a gravel-covered parking lot behind the clubhouse. "This joint makes Augusta seem like the ACLU," Reilly wrote in SI's September 16 edition.

The vital principle here is freedom of association. As the First Amendment states, "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble." These words reflect the right of Americans to associate privately with whomever we wish, and not with others, for whatever reason.


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45 posted on 12/03/2002 9:43:09 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: SJackson
Never give up ...
Never surrender.
46 posted on 12/03/2002 9:48:18 AM PST by BlueLancer
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