Sorting the Nuts

[Ian David]

Thursday, March 01, 2007

The lead editorial in BayWindows this week shows that the boss lady is out of patience with excusing bigotry on the basis of sincerity. Susan Ryan-Vollmar tees off on the two Mad Dad couples, but she also has special words for U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf.

She ridicules Wolf's consideration of the lawsuit foursome's claim of "sincere religious belief" as justification for their statements, actions and attempt to dictate a homosexual-topic exclusionary curriculum in public schools. When she's right, she is indeed, as when she writes:

But it must be said plainly that the Parkers and the Wirthlins are bigots. That they have “sincerely held religious beliefs” doesn’t mitigate their prejudice.

She doesn't spare the quisling liberals either. Whether it was racial issues or now sexual-orientation ones, she holds that accommodating the bigots or failing to call them on their shameless hiding behind this or that Bible verse as justification is worse than wrong. As she concludes:

The glorious thing about making such a choice for yourself is that this is America and you can believe whatever you want to believe — no matter how outrageous or irrational. Trying to impose your beliefs upon others, regardless of how “sincerely held” they may be, now that’s when the trouble starts.

The only thing missing in her clear view is how even such victories for the good guys as Wolf's dismissal of the lawsuit show America's social retardation. We, the beacon of liberty, far too often bring up the rear in equality and fairness.

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/03/sorting-nuts.html