I thought that it would be moved or deleted if I put this issue any where else as it is bound to get political.

As to a point from Xavier--

It does look like it took a lawsuit to allow a CA Rotary Club to keep its 3 females members on the books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_International

There has to be some very connected people (men) in the Augusta National Country Club to have kept it a men's only place for so long. You would have thought that would have been hit with various lawsuits by now or, at least, bad PR. http://blogs.findlaw.com/tarnished_t...icy-legal.html

I did not say successful lawsuits though given the Supreme Court's decision on allowing the Boy Scouts to discriminate against a gay scoutmaster based on the right of association and free speech. Boy Scouts v. Dale