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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
ugh, your opinion is completely wrong, but you are entitled to it. Put yourself in someone else's shoes and tell me its not discriminatory. DOMA also violates the Equal Protection clause in the Constitution.
Comparing it to a game that is run by the PGA is very insulting, though I'm sure you didnt mean it to be that way.
Augusta doesnt allow women to be members.. they are a private club and its' their right (just like the PGA). Is it discriminatory though? hell yes.
the USA is different story
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I think it's silly to invoke the Constitution on this issue because you know as well as I do that the Founding Fathers would have never allowed gay marriage. I'm not saying that they are right on the issue. They may be totally wrong but that's not the point.
This kind of reminds me of people saying that the death penalty should be banned because the Constitution does not allow "cruel and unusual punishment". This is a silly argument because the death penalty was legal back then and the Founding Fathers did not consider the death penalty to be "cruel or unusual punishment". I think it's silly to try to apply the Constitution to things that we know the Founding Fathers clearly would not have applied it to.
I agree with you that Augusta discriminates against women. There is no doubt about that. Women are not allowed to be members there. But I think that is totally different from the PGA Tour's stance on "no carts". If the PGA tour said that disabled people are not allowed to play, that would be discriminatory. But that is not what the PGA Tour says. They say that everybody has to walk. No carts are allowed. To me, that is not the same as saying "disabled people are not allowed to play".