Reverse Discrimination

[Draco]

So in light of most members supporting anti-discrimination laws..what about reverse discrimination?

Gay pub can bar heterosexual drinkers

• Ban was to 'prevent insults at gays'
• Pub exempt from Equal Opportunity Act
• Gays treated like 'zoo animals'

A MELBOURNE pub catering for gay men has won the right to refuse entry to heterosexuals in a landmark ruling at the state planning tribunal.


The owners of Collingwood's Peel Hotel applied to ban straight men and women to try to prevent "sexually based insults and violence" towards its gay patrons.


The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal last week granted the pub an exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act, effectively prohibiting entry to non-homosexuals.

More here

So is it ok for this pub, that caters to gay men, to deny entrance to heterosexual men/women? They're discriminating right? Based on their sexuality, they're not allowing them in (the owners give some excuses, which I don't buy. You have security guards to kick anyone out who's misbehaving).

Is this case of discrimination different to that of the Christian hotel owners, or the florist? Many of you were of the opinion that they do not have the right to discriminate on their property, so do you think the same of the owners of the gay bar?

It's funny though..you have this 'Equal Opportunity Act' but there's now some fine print to it that would read "Not really."