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My son has a life threatening peanut allergy. Even casual contact with the peanut is enough to cause a fatal reaction if not treated immediately.

I don't see how having one day for peanut free activities can be construed as fascism.

What many parks have done is had peanut free areas in their parks - one section where they can sit and not be affected. Such a policy probably makes more sense.

Airplanes are much worse, going to a ballpark is in many ways a choice and treatment is relatively close by in case he goes into shock. On an airplane if he has contact with peanut residue and goes into shock, it will likely be fatal as it would take too long for the plane to land and medical treatment to get to him.

How did folks with peanut allergies survive before their recent efforts to make the world peanut-safe?
Do peanut-free zones discriminate against folks with other allergies?
Is there a list of rare allergies about which the entire world must bend over to accomodate?
The problem is, we can find people with bad allergies to just about everything. We can't make the world allergy-free.

What is your reasoning for expecting the world to stop for your child? What is your reasoning to expect change for all because of a few? My daughter was severely allergic to strawberries when she was young, throat swelling, edema, hives. I just told her not to eat strawberries or strawberry jelly. Guess what she didn't.

You will soon find out that you are not engaged in meaningful conversation. For the wise crack crowd that has crowded out substantive discussion on this cite since the 2000 election, the only goal of posting is to be funny, sarcastic, or outrageous.

You could quote the shocking statistics that show the prevalence of peanut and nut allergies, but that will be lost on deaf ears. Parents with children who can die from exposure to certain nuts already live a tough life keeping life normal for their kids. Imagine sending you 5 year old off to Kindergarten hoping that she does not accidently encounter an allergy that will kill her. Brave parents do this everyday, and they keep life normal for these kids.

I see no reason why free people can't choose to have an occasional event where parents need not worry, if just for one night, that they will be rushing to a hospital after stabbing their kid with his or her eppi-pen and hoping the child lives.

These kids need not live in a bubble. And, they are not genetic misfits as has been hinted in the first few postings. They just have a very bad allergy to something beyond their control.

When I read the vitriol on this site that is so easily typed, I wonder how some of these folks extol the virtues of Ronald Reagan. (One commentator said of "Reagan, if he ever said a hateful remark, or showed cynicism about his fellow man, history has never recorded it.") Some lessons are never learned.