re: #103 Birth Control Works

Reguarding National Treasures: Ursula LeGuin

Those that left the Omelas

the story of a scapegoat —is also relevant —as we have an adminisration making scapegoats of at least 1/2 the population right now.

grrrrr!

OK, so you sent me to Ursula LeGuin’s website, and her flying squirrel page: delightful!

“In Abraham Lincoln’s Home Town
The State of Illinois has refused contracts to the Catholic diocese of Springfield, because the diocese refuses to recognise same-sex couples as foster parents. The Bishop protests against this injustice: ‘In the name of tolerance, we’re not being tolerated.’
“This sentence is a magnificent flying squirrel, demonstrating a startling flight of sterile circularity: Our human right to deny people their human rights is divine..l You have to encourage diversity and freedom of religion, so if we disapprove of diversity, you have to let us punish it freely… Intolerance of bigotry is bigotry and therefore tolerance of bigotry is righteous — so long as it’s our bigotry and your tolerance.”