Feb 19 2005
Capital of born again and heart of bible belt:
Austin, Texas as black nightclub burns on cops computer screen the words appear
"Burn baby burn."
With gay fake reporters, radio people bought
off, and now Nixon era tapes an honest red state man steps up: Rummy on
answering congress "If he knew the number of insurgents in Iraq."
Rummy replies, "I am not going to give you a number for it's not my
business to do intelligent work."
Isabelle Domingo on equal opportunity: The
only thing women won with liberation is that we work harder; we have double
responsibility. The men have more time to drink beer, watch soccer and get a
lover.
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."
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