The case for the seeing-eye horse

Macleans.ca ^ | 1 Oct 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

What if a blind man with a guide dog had taken on a Muslim bed-and-breakfast owner?

What’s new in the exciting world of Canadian “human rights”?

Well, the other day Kelly Egan of the Ottawa Citizen reported the story of a gay bed-and-breakfast owner allergic to dogs who got hauled in for “mediation” by the “Human Rights” Tribunal of Ontario after he turned away a blind man with a Seeing Eye dog. Douglas McCue, 68, of the CornerStone B & B in Perth, Ont., suffers from acute sinusitis aggravated by exposure to canines. Ian Martin, a blind diabetic, responded with a lawyer’s letter and a demand for compensation that started at two grand and quickly escalated into five figures.

[JLS]

A new Steyn column on some interest twists of PC.

[Boogieman]

I’ve thought about this stuff myself. The left created all these “protected classes” to extort the heterosexual white male into submission. I don’t think they realized that the divisions they helped encourage would start turning on each other though!

They will have to set up some sort of caste system if they want to make this work. Something like: Gay-Muslim-Handicapped-Black-Women get first priority, then Gay-Atheist-Dwarf-Eskimo-Women, etc, etc.

[JLS]

Steyn ping opportunity.

[samtheman]

The reality is there is no correct answer to any of the above: as I said a couple of weeks back, tyranny is always whimsical. Which is exactly how the social engineers of the “human rights” nomenklatura like it. Because it legitimizes the state as the only valid mediator of social relations. And so in the cause of invented rights of near parodic absurdity, a profoundly wicked “human rights” apparatus is happy to destroy utterly the lives and livelihoods of blameless individuals.

They [the human rightists] are hideous human derelicts, lacking all skills, lacking all sense of morality, and existing only to further their own poer. Leeches. Blood-suckers. Parasites.

[GeronL]

did someone say horse?

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s tricky to keep up with who trumps whom these days.

Not to say the situation didn’t suck. A person with a dog allergy had better not open any business where someone blind might come in with a dog.

[grey_whiskers]

Or John Fulton, the St. Catharines fitness club owner who expressed misgivings about letting a pre-op transsexual (i.e., still flying the old meat and two veg) use the ladies’ shower because his female clients might not be comfortable with it.

Off-scale funny.

*PING* to you for the original piece, snarks.

Cheers!

[snarks_when_bored]

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