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To: daniel boob
Wait until the ACLU initiates a Title 9-type lawsuit to protect women's athletics at the professional level. God help us!
22 posted on 09/15/2003 4:23:45 PM PDT by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: Rockitz
Wait until the ACLU initiates a Title 9-type lawsuit to protect women's athletics at the professional level. God help us!

Mark my words -- using the successful suit against the PGA by disabled golfer Casey Martin as a basis, there will someday be a suit by a female athlete that says the rules of a sport discriminate against women, and that accommodations must be allowed to bring women into men's pro leagues.

How can I say such a thing? Here's how: The Martin case established for the first time that federal law trumps the established rules of a sport if they are found to be discriminatory.

Martin, born with a congenital condition that doesn't allow him to walk long distances, used a golf cart to get to where he hit the ball. The PGA discriminated against Martin, they said, because their rules said that in all but uncommon specified cases, the game of professional golf is about hitting the ball and walking to it, hitting it again, and walking to it, until the ball goes into the hole.

The SCOTUS said, "No, PGA, professional golf is (or should be) ONLY about hitting the ball," and that it was wrong not to allow Martin do drive to it.

24 posted on 09/15/2003 6:42:39 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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