Thursday, November 16, 2006
Progressive versus crazy-making
I just have to contrast these items:
(1) South Africa legalizes same-sex marriage. Then again, it was the first constitution in the world to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, so we shouldn’t be surprised by this amazing and progressive move.
(2) This Terrence Has Two Fathers video, as seen on You Tube, Netherlands’ Children for Children series. Again, amazingly progressive.
(3) Delta Airlines lets a flight attendant’s personal prudishness overrule public legislation when a woman dared breastfeed her child - in other words, commit a legal act (breast-feeding is protected under the Public Accommodations Act, meaning that a mother is allowed to breast-feed in public). How amazingly regressive!
(4) Passenger is removed from flight for wearing “offensive” t-shirt. Again, how regressive and anti-democratic. And selective about free speech - just about every time I’ve been on a flight, I’ve seen lots of stuff offensive to me, and those passengers have been allowed to fly. So who gets to decide what is offensive?