Atlanta Golf Club Sparks Battle Over Gay Rights

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TLANTA (Reuters) - A new battle in America's fight over gay rights has erupted in Atlanta, cradle of the U.S. civil rights movement, where a golf club is resisting a city order to grant spousal benefits to its gay members.
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At the heart of the current conflict in Atlanta is a municipal ordinance that prohibits businesses and other groups dealing with the public from discriminating against gays or their partners.

The private 1,100-member Druid Hills club fell under the scrutiny of city attorneys last year after two gay members complained that their partners were not provided the same privileges as the spouses of heterosexual members.

The club, which is located in a fashionable part of Atlanta, allows members' spouses to use its facilities without being accompanied and to continue doing so for six months after the death of their husband or wife.

It does not extend those benefits to unmarried heterosexual or same-sex couples.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050112/lf_nm/rights_gays_dc

[Turbineguy]

1. If "those people"

are playing golf, they won't have time to get an abortion.

[northzax]

2. because we all know that the number one produrer of abortions

is gay men...

[gademocrat7]

3. Druid Hills Country Club -A black eye on Atlanta

Our mayor, a black woman, has taken on the bubba network on this one. Hopefully she will be prevail.