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Posted on 05/30/2007 12:23:55 PM PDT by presidio9
MELBOURNE, Australia - A gay bar has won the right to turn away heterosexuals and even lesbians to provide a non-threatening atmosphere for the men partying inside.
A tribunal in Australia's southern Victoria state granted Melbourne's Peel Hotel an exemption to equal rights laws, saying it was needed to prevent "sexually based insults and violence" aimed at the pub's patrons.
In her findings, the tribunal's deputy president, Cate McKenzie, said Monday that to allow large numbers of straight men and women and lesbians into the bar could "undermine or destroy" the convivial atmosphere that the Peel Hotel sought to create for gay men.
McKenzie said there was evidence some straight patrons were going to the bar to use the predominantly gay customers as a form of entertainment.
"To regard the gay male patrons of the venue as providing an entertainment or spectacle to be stared at, as one would at an animal at a zoo, devalues and dehumanizes them," she was quoted by News Ltd. newspapers as saying.
The pub will now be able to advertise that it will turn away straight people, and its door staff will be able to ask people whether they are gay before allowing them inside.
Australia's Equal Opportunities Act bars discrimination for race, religion or sexuality, but exemptions are allowed.
The head of Victoria's Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission applauded the decision.
"These exemptions exist to protect groups in the community who are subject to being treated less favorably, or treated unfairly compared with other groups," she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio Tuesday.
"In this case, what we know is that there are many options for heterosexuals males to enjoy a safe, social environment."
whew.... now I can be stopped from going into one.
Good, now I can't walk in there by mistake.
How many heterosexuals say,”let’s go to a gay bar and watch!”...Hmmmm?...........
Can a straight bar ban homosexuals?
I didn’t think so.
Double Standarad Alert!
Is there a test? I mean like a Breathalyzer?
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Is there a test? I mean like a Breathalyzer?
I’ve never made a mistake like that.
I remember a guy in New York City who walked into a homosexual bar by mistake. He walked all the way out with his back to the wall.
“Can a straight bar ban homosexuals?”
Why would you? Those in gay bars a very polite. They would all like to invite you to sit down and they will even push your stool in for you!
On the serious side, WTF???? So now certain people have ‘special rights’ so long as the PC crowd approves of them?
When did life become “Animal Farm”? How long before idiots do this in the USA? Will we have areas where Christians and Jews cannot go because it ‘offends’ the Muslims and might cause violence? Though when Muslims attack “infidels”, the left never calls that ‘violence’. It is only when Christians and Jews defend ourselves against Islamic terror that the left screams “atrocity”, “profiling” and “Islamophobia”.
BLATT!!!
Now I have to clean my monitor... Dr. Pepper all over it...
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The dreaded: Chopadicktome
silly me. I thought the rationale would be that a private property owner could exclude anyone he wanted. Instead, it was to prevent “sexually based insults and violence” aimed at the pub’s patrons.
http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar (be careful with your speakers)
>>>..and they will even push your stool in for you!
GGRROOAANN!!!! :) LOL!
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