Last week the City Council in Jacksonville declined to give special privileges to homosexuals.
Libs fumed, but those voting against the effort to ban discrimination no doubt were swayed by the paucity of evidence that there is any discrimination to ban.
Where are the homosexual drinking fountains, and the signs directing homosexuals to the rear of the bus?
This is not a civil rights issue.
Homosexuals already have the same protections all Americans have in the Bill of Rights. More laws only make trial lawyers richer.
With such laws, employers would be unlikely to discharge anyone who is homosexual, no matter how incompetent an employee might be. Employers simply wouldnt fight the lawyers, unions and media.
Meanwhile, young, white, straight males would be the first to go when an employer is forced to trim the work force.
Want discrimination? A recent study found that In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues.
Why not enact a law that prohibits discrimination against anyone, including conservatives?
A related dispute is the one that resulted in the Chick-fil-A boycott -- which backfired by turning out millions of supporters for the company.
The head of Chick-fil-A had the temerity to say what millions of Americans believe, so liberals wish to destroy his company.
One person seemed to get it: musician Charlie Daniels.
This is not about gay marriage; this is about America being America, about people being able to stick by their deeply held religious beliefs and not to have these people trying to put them out of business, Daniels said. Thats what this boils down to: Are these people going to try to shut up everybody who doesnt agree with them?
Another view:
I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage.
I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian ... it is also a sacred union. Gods in the mix.
Such divisive, bigoted words surely were spoken by Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy, right?
Wrong.
President Barack Obama uttered those sentiments.
That was before Obama evolved. (That is, he found it was politically advantageous to revise his views.)
For years, liberal policies have been eroding the basic unit of society the family. Marriage helps to bind families together, and has for thousands of years.
But, in the liberal world, any new idea is better.
So the Great New Idea is that we should scrap 5,000 years of history and experience, and create another privileged class. Naturally, the next shoe to drop will be: homosexuals must get special preferences in hiring and education, and no doubt reparations.
Societies and cultures have managed over millennia to work out matters like this among themselves by common consent. When politicians get involved, they seek results that benefit themselves and people who vote for them not the common good.
Lloyd Brown was in the newspaper business nearly 50 years, beginning as a copy boy and retiring as editorial page editor of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. After retirement he served as speech writer for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
