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To: Husker24
If its a private golf course, it's nobodys damn business what the membership criteria is.

Sure it is...

Every membership entity means that it's open to potential members...and potential members should know what why exclude them...if for no other reason than to never plan on joining.

I would say if you're a business and you supply products and services to such a golf course...and they have racist policies...then it literally IS your business...and such a business may desire to simply not sell its products or offer its services to such racists.

Who a company boycotts IS their business!

Likewise, a member may join a golf course and not realize it has racist policies. Such a criteria could (1) be offensive to such a member -- and they may wish to recant such a membership; (2) Even if they weren't personally offended, if they were someone with, say, political machinations who doesn't want their reputational name linked with such a course, they, too, have a right to know what the membership criteria is.

Otherwise you get into these occultic (Latin for "hidden") 30-odd degrees like the Masons...where they don't reveal to you what it takes to climb their ladder...and you get people in a sudden situation where they are making oaths that contain throat-slashings if you reveal certain things.

17 posted on 05/01/2011 10:29:59 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
I must take offense at your inclusion of masons as an example. occultic is not a Latin word for one as they have no (ic) though occult means hiding or concealing with the various endings, they do not have (hidden)specifically and the masons proper have 3 degrees, this lodge also known as the blue lodge, is for any person believing in a supreme being and they are Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master. York Rite masonry has 12 degrees and it is for Christians and Scottish Rite is for any supreme being believers and has 32 degrees and the 33 that is given to honor top members of the craft. The Shrine is a fraternity for any masons that have attained York or Scottish Rite status and in none of these organizations is there any hidden requirements that would exclude a member that wanted to be in them.
31 posted on 05/01/2011 12:25:41 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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