Posted on 05/09/2022 8:13:15 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ORLANDO, Fla. — The attorney for two women who were denied entry into an Orlando strip club in 2018 because they weren’t with a man said Friday he plans to take their case to the Florida Supreme Court again because the issue is more than who can have fun at a gentlemen’s club.
It’s whether local governments can enact anti-discrimination ordinances that offer more protections than the Florida Civil Rights Act, said Matthew Dietz, a Miami attorney who represents Brittney Smith and Anita Yanes.
“We do believe that this issue is so important,” Dietz said. “We’re living in a time when these rights are being constricted.”
Dietz made the comments just hours after Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal on Friday refused to rehear the case following its ruling last March that a portion of Orange County’s human rights ordinance was unconstitutional because it is preempted by the Florida Civil Rights Act.
Appeals Court Judge John Harris, however, confirmed that the issue of whether all anti-discrimination cases should be filed through the state or if local governments are allowed to enact such ordinances beyond state law is “one of great public importance.” Judges Mary Alice Nardella and Carrie Ann Wozniak concurred.
That likely gives the Smith and Yanes the opportunity to have their case heard by the state Supreme Court, Dietz said, even though the high court declined to take up the case almost two years ago.
“The case is going to move forward, and the Florida Supreme Court is going to decide whether the Florida Civil Rights Act preempts local anti-discrimination ordinances,” Dietz said. “For the past 50 years, counties and municipalities in Florida have been passing anti-discrimination ordinances that protect the citizens in their counties and cities. ... Until today, those ordinances have been valid.”
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Well, it is called a “gentleman’s club”... though you might be hard pressed to find any actual “gentlemen” there.
Sounds like the club needs to turn itself into a true private club, and membership requirement is males only... Membership requirements $20 at the door for a 1 day membership and must be male...
The insanity of these gender rules are insane...
Blame them for the end of ladies nights too.. not allowed to charge 1 price for women and another for men... so the entire ladies night concept for bars is gone...
What if they identify as hetro men folk
On the other hand, getting local governments to toe the line with state and federal laws is a good thing.
How about they were denied entry because they were ugly? Is that a protected class?
What’s the issue? the woman in the photo IS with man...
“The club says its policy is to prevent prostitution...”
There’s the possibility of prostitution at strip clubs?
I’m shocked.
“Well, it is called a “gentleman’s club”... though you might be hard pressed to find any actual “gentlemen” there.:
agreed. I was DJ at a strip club back in college and that term needs to go. The narrative is seeing a Sean Connery characters in tux having a lap dance is fantasy. Unless you’re Jeffrey Epstein..
what’s to stop a male pimp escorting some of his girls into a strip club, to then turn tricks?
This is just stupid- let the ladies in if they pay the cover.
“they were ugly? Is that a protected class?”
Maybe.
According to Rush, ugly women is the reason the Feminism movement came to be.
“You got strip club money?”
The house gets its cut from all “action” in a strip club. That’s the purpose of all the “rules.”
I’m ok with them getting into the club. I figure, the more womyns, the better.
Then “ladies nights” have to be declared illegal.
“it is called a “gentleman’s club”
Yes, however a dirty little secret most guys don’t know is these days the majority of the dancers in these clubs are lesbians....no joke.
Well, it’s not to prevent prostitution per sé, rather to restrict competition on behalf of the working girls there.
In many states they already are—rightfully it should be illegal in all cases to offer discount or special access or benefits based on sex, race, ethnicity, etc.
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