Here’s the hypothetical: Shlomo Cohen has been blessed with a son, but he lives in San Francisco, where there is a vocal anti-circumcision movement. He emails his neighbor, a photographer, and asks him if he would photograph his son’s bris. The photographer responds, “Shlomo, no offense, but I think circumcision amounts to genital mutilation, and […]
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Gay Marriage and Intolerance
Perhaps the best most effective argument opponents of gay marriage (which I support) have [which, I’ve since read, is the focus of their current campaign in Maine] is that once gay marriage becomes institutionalized, people who still oppose it for religious and other reasons will be treated as pariahs and, even worse, will be treated […]
Irony?
Star: Professor at his first lecture of the semester to Canadian university students: “Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, everyone is not entitled to their opinion. ‘All Jews should be sterilized’ would be an example of an unacceptable and dangerous opinion.” Student misunderstands, and launches attack on professor for being anti-Semitic. When the context […]
More on Sean Lanigan and False Accusations
Yesterday I posted about Fairfax County teacher Sean Lanigan, falsely accused of child molestation. Here’s a bit more: (1) Lanigan answers Post readers’ questions here. He opines that the accuser’s name should not be published, as she is a troubled 13 year old girl. I was already reconsidering my view on this, and I suppose […]
The Decline of Free Speech at Yale
Glenn Reynolds has a full report. I hope he’s over-reacting, but I fear he is not. UPDATE: Peter Berkowitz has more here.
Enough with the Ridiculous Hyperbole!
One of the fun, albeit somewhat disheartening, things about having written a book about the encroachment of antidiscrimination laws on all aspects of civil society is watching hypotheticals your critics dismissed as “absurd” or “ridiculous hyperbole” turn into real cases. For example, while the Boy Scouts of America were sued for refusing to allow homosexual […]