Is a gay men's bar entitled to exclude women? The Quebec Human Rights Commission has just ruled No! It is discrimination.
Birds of a feather flock together. It is known as Freedom of Association. Like-minded people engaged in a lawful object must be able to pursue their goal free from interference. That is the stuff of life. Most everything that has ever been created was achieved in that manner.
The offence is committed in the asking. (It comes under the 10th commandment: Thou shalt not covet.) A woman may not ask to join the YMCA. When you claim something that is not yours, you put the lawful owner on the spot. Taken by surprise, on the spur of the moment, he has to come up with a defence, which often involves violence, because the coveter is out of bounds~beyond reason in the first place~putting the lawful person in the wrong.
I am currently in Churchillian mode having just read Churchill and the Jews by Martin Gilbert. Churchill wanted to settle the Jews in Libya after WW2: their bit of Palestine being inadequate. Hitler wanted to settle them in Western Australia. Stalin tried to settle them in Siberia. Anywhere but my backyard! It would be laughable except that is how empires are made: by interfering with people. Once Churchill claimed Libya for the Jews, the onus was on the Libyans to come up with a defence, and the Jews stood to be compensated for not getting what they had no right to ask for. (President Truman saved the day!) Similarly with this trouble-making female wanting to access a gay men's bar. In any reasonable society, that would be a criminal offence. She is denying the right of the gay guys to their share of the action.
Dieta: Welcome to my blog. Just found your post. (I'm still a beginner here.) I can't access your blog, I'm afraid. Keep in touch. And thanx for the reply.
Who is 'chopped-liver'? A housewife or a working wife? Who is to be preferred? One-income or two-income marriages? This last forty years, we have promoted working couples while leaving single-income marriages to fend for themselves. It should be the other way around. Single-income marriages deserve support. I propose to replace child allowances with a HOMEMAKER ALLOWANCE. The strengthening of the family. And the restoration of middle-class society.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
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About Me
- Great Uncle Clive
- The same age, height, weight and initials as Cassius Clay, your favourite great uncle was born a Capricorn in the Year of the Snake. (Am I ever wise!) He has a good honours degree from an ancient British university. If you believe in symbols, kneel! In reality he has a lower second BA in geography from Durham. You may rise! (I don't make the rules!) He dropped out in the late Sixties to write up an insight (because I couldn't take to any work routine) and spent his entire life on the project. It was quite unpublishable. It used the idea of a Dual Brain to hold together the conflict between symbol and reality, right and good. Pounded by the hammers of rejection, we came to conclude the best hope for mankind lay in a homemaker allowance. So blog it!
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