Print đź–¨ PDF đź“„NCFM UPDATE: The LA Times picked up the article posted the day before in the Glendale News-Press (below). It’s interesting that in the LA Times article things went missing, two comments that bolster our position. Same old chivalrous LA Times… then came FOX News! 1. “Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean you come out of the womb with a black belt in karate,” 2. And, “Lawrence Rosenthal, a law professor at Chapman University and a former Asst. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said if these classes are open to the general public with the only restriction being the gender-based discrimination, then they may be considered illegal. “Both sexes have to have equivalent opportunities and any special programs targeted at women have to have a clear justification in terms of remediating some sort of inequality of opportunity that women face,” he said.” Article here: Men’s group objects to women’s self-defense classes in Glendale . National Coalition for Men claims free classes violate equal protection clauses. Letter challenges Glendale’s women’s self-defense classes By Brittany Levine, Los Angeles Times By limiting free self-defense classes to women only, the city of Glendale and its Commission on … Continue reading Glendale News-Press, LA Times, and FOX News runs story about NCFM challenging Commission on Status of Women for violating federal and state civil rights laws
