Posted on 06/17/2007 12:21:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58
In Oakland, Calif., "marriage," "family values" and "union of a man and a woman" have been deemed hate speech. Here's how it happened: Oakland has anti-discrimination rules protecting homosexuals. In 2002, a letter distributed via the city's e-mail system invited municipal employees to "National Coming-Out Day" activities as part of the city's celebration of diversity and homosexuality. Two workers responded with fliers on employee bulletin boards and elsewhere announcing the formation of the Good News Employee Association for people who oppose "all views which seek to redefine the natural family and marriage." Naturally, a lesbian co-worker was horribly offended and told the city attorney's office the fliers made her feel "targeted" and "excluded."
So city officials did some targeting and excluding of their own. In a memo, they called the Good News fliers "homophobic" and threatened to fire anyone caught posting them. Meanwhile, left-wing groups and heterophobes continued to have unfettered access to the e-mail system and bulletin boards to attack the Bible and vilify Christians.
Good News sued, allowing the U.S. District Court to declare that "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" have "anti-homosexual import." The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, so unless the Supreme Court overrules, the thought police will have imposed through judicial fiat yet another infringement upon free speech, this one a far-reaching rule forbidding co-workers from speaking "any verbiage that could be offensive to gay people."
America was founded on the belief that full, unrestrained debate is vital to the nation's health and the best way of separating good ideas from bad.
When anti-discrimination laws convey special rights upon minority groups, they upset the constitutional balance and discriminate against the majority by excluding diverse ideas in the name of inclusion.
A contrived life always is full of these types of difficulties.
But they’re the Master Race. Just ask them.
The concept of hate crime exists to give FedGov some police powers where they had none. Several local municipalities have run with the idea, not realizing what it is. Some sociologists have absconded with the idea, which they will do with any idea they stumble across, and created hate speech as if that means something. This should be a footnote in the history of history, but time will tell.
Boy- I wouldn’t be able to hold a job there, no matter what.
The homophiles must be having a fit with today being “Father’s Day.” Which one gets to be the father and which got to be the mother last month?
A contrived life always is full of these types of difficulties.””
I still want to know what bathroom they all use. How do they decide? Will I walk in on a “male/femal” in the ladies room one of these days???
God- I miss the old wooden 2 holer we had at the one room school.
The idea that people who flaunt pride in their sexual deviancy should be beyond criticism is beyond equivalence to something Dean Swift would have ridiculed in Gulliver's Travels. It is in a class of its own. This sort of thing is condemning our generation to everlasting ridicule in the future; that is, assuming that human liberty of free expression survives somewhere.
William Flax
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