Augusta Golf Club Stands Up to Threats from N.O.W.

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

I say BRAVO to Hootie Johnson and Augusta National. I can think of no other prominent institution, not one, that has had the principle and the courage to stand up to the PC police.

[goldstategop]

Keep the club all-male. If a woman is interested in golf, there are female clubs that can accomodate her interest. Its not like women have to take over every male fraternity in sight. Enough already!

[Vidalia]

Why would they allow anyone on the first tee without any balls...?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Again, what I find so amazing is that the golf club has had the guts, in the face of the NOW demands, to say "no!" It seems that nowadays every institution caves into the pressure. We'll see where this goes. Perhaps CBS and the sponsors will put huge pressure on the club. I hope they resist it.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Vidalia. Isn't that where those great GEORGIA onions come from? Surely an Augusta National supporter.

[goldstategop]

I don't know. The lesbos at NOW somehow make men apologize for enjoying themselves. We shouldn't feel guilty for being part of the patriarchy, heck we earned it!!!

[goldstategop]

Yup, the very one.

[SouthernFreebird]

LOL!

[Shooter 2.5]

I don't play golf or care what the club does but why don't they want women in their club?
Are the members a group of eight year olds with a treehouse?

[chance33_98]

We need contact info for the club and should start freeping them, thanking them for their decision and standing by them. Let them know they are not alone. I for one will contribute $ if advertisers back out.

[dwilli]

The Masters needs Augusta National more than
Augusta National needs the Masters, We talking
old money here and lots of it in this little
community.

[Zon]

"The message delivered to us was clearly coercive,'' he said. "We will not be bullied, threatened or intimidated. We do not intend to become a trophy in their display case.''

I applaud you, Mr. Johnson. Stand tall sir.

"There may well come a day when women will be invited to join our membership, but that timetable will be ours, and not at the point of a bayonet,'' Johnson said.

I applaud you again,  Mr. Johnson. Stand tall sir.

"Augusta National and the Masters -- while happily entwined -- are quite different,'' Johnson said. "One is a private golf club. The other is a world-class sports event of great public interest. It is insidious to attempt to use one to alter the essence of the other.''

Again sir,  I applaud you. Stand tall Mr. Johnson.

[Vidalia]

I AM NOT A MAN!

I AM A ROGUE ONION!

[FreeperinRATcage]

The point is NOT to keep it all male! The point is to NOT bow down to pressure from the PC police. If Agusta decides to admit women, then thats a decision the membership shuld make, NOT one thats forved down their throats by the NOW.

Focusing on the issue as "keeping the club all male" does a disservice to what the real issue is, the lefties continual attempts to push their brand of correctness on everything in sight.

[Zon]

"We were trying the olive-branch approach, but he's unwilling to talk.''

Debbie has left Dallas and there's an opening so we were thinking that perhaps you'd like to join the good-ol' boys club so that we can shoot a Martha Does Dallas video.

[goldstategop]

Well, political correctness is having everything integrated. Like VMI in Virginia. Its just not what it used to be before.

[FreeperinRATcage]

You think so? Integrate the NAACP then :)

[GovernmentShrinker]

The title displayed is erroneous. As the article mentions repeatedly, the organization which is attacking the club is the National Council of Women's Organizations, not NOW (National Organization for Women). While I wouldn't be surprised if NOW is a member of NCWO, NCWO is running this show in its own name, and should be taking the heat in its own name.

[dts32041]

Well do come near me.

I'll slice you up and put you on a hamburger.

[Vidalia]

Could you give a rational aspect for this comment?