Discrimination is par for the course FINAL Edition

Yet when reporters asked [DAN QUAYLE] about his honorary membership in the all-male Burning Tree Club, outside Washington, the vice president shot back: "I've played there before, and I'll play there again." Women from Pebble Beach to Baltimore cringed. Burning Tree, whose member...

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Published inEvening sun (Hanover, York County, Pa.)
Main Author Cotton, Linda
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore, Md Baltimore Sun 04.01.1991
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Quayle, Dan
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Summary:Yet when reporters asked [DAN QUAYLE] about his honorary membership in the all-male Burning Tree Club, outside Washington, the vice president shot back: "I've played there before, and I'll play there again." Women from Pebble Beach to Baltimore cringed. Burning Tree, whose membership list reads like Who's Who in American politics, not only bars women as members but does not even allow them to play as guests. And like most other exclusionary clubs, a lot more goes on at Burning Tree than a round of golf. That Quayle could see a difference between what's happening at Burning Tree and what's happening at Cypress Point belies the poll-conscious rhetoric about discrimination. Sexism is no different from racism in that it arbitrarily excludes certain people from select social circles, chosen clubs, restaurants because of the arrangement of their genes and chromosomes. Quayle's playing at a club that bars women is a sanction of invidious discrimination just as clearly as his playing at one that bars blacks. If the vice president wants the American public to believe that he truly "does not condone any form of discrimination," he has no choice but to refuse to play at Burning Tree.