Political correctness runs amok as governor snubs men-only club

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-12-07 21:13

Article here. Excerpt:

'Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts refused to appear at the Clover Club, an Irish American group of businessmen and community leaders in Boston over the weekend because it is a men-only club.

Deval was dead wrong.

I hope he will similarly cancel visits to the National Organization of Women for the same reason.

The club was founded in 1883 by Irish-American men as a dinner and card-playing venue. But it is now an organization of prominent business and civic leaders, and one that helps many groups.

Clearly, there are some men's clubs at which Patrick should not appear, but the Clover Club is not one of them.'

Niall O'Dowd is founder and publisher of Irish America magazine, The Irish Voice and "Home & Away" newspapers. He is also founder of IrishCentral, and an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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This makes it sound like there was something wrong with it when it was dinner and card playing.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-12-10 05:03