Diversity is good — just so long as you share all of the official views, vote in the proper fashion, and do not say anything which deviates from the official party line. As long as you follow those rules, you can be as diverse as you want to be.
Signing a petition to put a referendum on the ballot? Silly person, the State knows so much better than the People! The People are too stupid to decide on their own. /sarcasm
Now people don’t often tie things together and thus we end up with unintended consequences.
Let’s hit the wayback machine to the 1960s. The country decides that racism must be stomped out, and that pretty much all means, constitutional or otherwise are justified. Hence we get laws and SC decisions which pretty much toss the concept of freedom of assembly out the window. Let me be clear that I have no objection to government functions and regulations being fully colorblind. It is when the law gets applied in a broad swath across private individuals that I have a beef.
Can there be a black students organization? Yes. Can there be a white students organization? No.
Do I have to be careful of the race(later expanded to sex, disability status, and nowadays sexual preference) of the person I hire or fire? Yes.
Now I’ll be honest, I don’t really care what the light in the loafer crowd does on their own time. I do, however strongly object to the concept that everyone has to accept, nay, like it and have that enforced by law. If I were Catholic and ran a bed and breakfast, I should be able to deny business to a gay wedding reception. It’s my damned property. However that won’t fly anymore.
In the eternal (and extremely misguided) quest for fairness any rights which get in the way are stomped. Freedom religion? Bah. Freedom of speech? Bah. Freedom of Assembly? Bah. Mere obstacles to be overcome and disregarded.
People don’t bother to weigh the rights of people affected by changed. Sure, an alleged right to marriage is denied gays (find me that right in the constitution while we’re at it), so to ‘restore’ that right we stomp the rights of a whole lot of other people for the sake of fairness. Bollocks.
Last survey I saw said gays were around 3% of the population. Catholics and Evangelicals are close to 50% (very rough estimate). Assume even that we take out the smorgasbord Catholics, we still have over 10x as many people getting their right to assembly, religion, and speech stomped on as the people we’re supposed to be helping. That’s not particularly ‘fair’ now it is?
Fascists in academia at work.
I never realised the deaf were so fond of Homosexuals.
Maybe many really are deaf-———and dumb.
yeah I know I will get burned for that one .
I hope this opened McCaskill’s eyes to the true nature of homosexuality and the Leftists who support it. Maybe she’ll become a conservative as a result?
There have been some strange doings at Gallaudet. One year the students learned that their new president, though he knew sign language, was not deaf. There were mass protests that could be seen but barely heard as the protesting students furiously signed their outrage accompanied by sobs, moans, & facial histrionics. The administration caved and nominated a deaf-correct president.