Posted on 04/07/2019 7:27:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Left has won the culture war, and now it's exiling anyone with sympathy for the losing side. Two recent incidents evince a growing trend to try to ban any view on gender or sexuality from public life that is to the Right of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Federalist Society at Yale Law School recently incurred the wrath of students because it invited Kristen Waggoner to speak. Waggoner is a renowned attorney at a public-interest law firm who was part of a successful Supreme Court case.
Why would a speaking invitation to a successful female attorney trigger the Yale lefties?
Their outrage was stoked because the case Waggoner won was Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, in which her employer, Alliance Defending Freedom, successfully protected Jack Phillips’ freedom of conscience. Phillips wouldn’t create a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding. Working for ADF made Waggoner unfit to speak at Yale, the students argued.
Shortly after this, halfway across the country, the San Antonio City Council approved an expansion of the airport on the condition the airport exclude a Chick-fil-A that was in the original plan. The reason is that Chick-fil-A is deemed guilty of “anti-LGBTQ behavior” because its owners view marriage in the same way it has been viewed for all but the last few of the past few thousand years: as an exclusively heterosexual institution.
These episodes demonstrate the illiberalism and intolerance of the Left, which is now willing to use governmental and institutional power to smash those who don’t agree with it on sexual morality.
Our culture rightly regards some opinions as beyond the bounds of reasonable debate. We’d expect a city to be unwelcoming to a restaurant whose owner funded the Islamic State. We wouldn’t expect Yale Law School to host speakers advocating slavery.
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OKAY, tell me the last time you heard a press bimbo use the phrase "undocumented worker'?
...”Working for ADF made Waggoner unfit to speak at Yale, the students argued.”
IMHO, Yale’s administration should have replied that such gross ignorance of The Bill of Rights makes those “students” unfit to “study” law at Yale or anywhere else. And then Yale should have expelled them for their ignorance and their intolerance.
IMHO, administrators should understand that, if and when the “mob” does rule, professional lawyers will not be needed and that Yale Law School itself will be redundant.
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