I wrote the following letter to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in response
to this column

To the editor:

Jan Russel has written that Hootie Johnson said that he would not add women
players even "at the point of a bayonet." This indicates that there is
something seriously wrong with her.

Hootie Johnson has said that when his club does admit female members, it
will NOT be at the point of a bayonet.

The Augusta National Golf Club has no rule specifically forbidding female
members. It is an invitation only club. The only people expressly forbidden
from ever being invited are those who actively campaign for admission. Bill
Gates once made it known that he wished to be invited to join, and for this
very reason he was not invited to join.

The cutesy war metaphor of Ms. Russel's column was almost as disgusting as
the self-righteous piety with which she characterizes an open attack on the
right of freedom of association explicitly laid out in the first amendment
as a struggle FOR liberation.

The liberty that the National Council of Women's Organizations is fighting
for in this case is the liberty to force other people to do things that
they do not want to do. The justice that they seek is the elimination of
the distinction between private and public organizations, at least when it
suits them.