Predictable News

Predictable News

Sometimes it’s not worth the bother to open a newspaper or switch on the boob tube to catch the news. Much of it could have been written by the average freshman journalism major before it hit the wires.

For example, Chai Feldblum, recently nominated by the president to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), last month published an article titled, “Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion” in which she made what would normally be an outlandish assertion.

However, considering the outrageous beliefs and statements of other Obama appointments, Ms. Feldblum’s views should have been anticipated.

“Just as we do not tolerate private racial beliefs that adversely affect African-Americans in the commercial arena, even if such beliefs are based on religious views,” she wrote, ”we should similarly not tolerate private beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity that adversely affect LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] people:” http://bit.ly/4P5EIj

Translation: We don’t care if anyone has a moral problem say, with homosexuals trying to recruit high school and junior high school kids to their lifestyle–which they do. Just keep it to yourself if it in any way “adversely affects” LGBT-ers, including if your stated beliefs make them feel bad.

The Libertarian Lexington Institute has released a report showing that more Americans can identify the Gosselins of TV fame than can identify the founding father of the Constitution or who the first chief justice of the United States was.

Talk about a waste of paper and bandwidth! Most Americans can’t identify the current chief justice or George W. Bush’s father, even if they do know who won the Golden Globule Awards and the unwed fathers of the progeny of Hollywood starlets.

The cause of the massive ignorance? The failure of schools to teach. As the report goes on to say, “(S)chool reformers need to do much more to restore history as a vital subject in American education:” http://bit.ly/8mQ3eF

Well, no shoot, Sherlocks! . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1434)