California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s father once ruled that the super-secretive men’s club Bohemian Grove couldn’t bar women from working there — preventing members from going au natural at the exclusive redwoods retreat.
As a U.S. Appeals Court Judge, William Newsom an issued an opinion striking down a ban on hiring women at the 150-year-old club, saying it was no justification that members might be stopped from walking around the encampment nude.
He added that if the men felt embarrassed, they could use the enclosed shower and bathroom facilities.
The elder Newsom made the ruling in 1986, well before his son entered the California political arena and ascended to the state’s highest office.
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