‘Fairness’ language creates ‘suffocating realm of political correctness’

To the editor,

You’ve received communications promoting this “fairness” ordinance, and I just wanted to point out a few things.

First, the nomenclature — the “fair” part. The proposed ordinance goes above and beyond that noble term, grossly empowering a tiny segment of the population — molly coddling them with superior rights — to the exclusion of everybody else. This is not some benign, neutral trait at hand (homosexuality, cross-dressing), this is a demonstrably disordered lifestyle typified by medical liabilities, lifestyle turmoil and blight.

The “fair” in “fairness” is really inclusion-by-exclusion. It’s like in Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” where “all are created equal, but some more ‘equal’ than others.”

“Fairness” adds sexual identity to “enumerated lists” of protected classes, and another thing on that list is “religion.” “Fairness” allows homosexuality to supercede and overrule religion in a kind of legislative schizophrenia, or cognitive dissonance. Let’s see how “fair” plays out in practice.

The Christian owner of Hands-On Originals, an apparel store in Lexington has endured harassment and a costly, lengthy legal battle to avoid being forced to print T-shirts for the gay pride parade as it violates his Christian conscience to make T-shirts that celebrate sin — something that’s in the tenets of our faith. Ezekiel 3:18 tells us our own salvation is at stake when we endorse the sinful choices of another. That’s exactly what he’d be doing by printing those t-shirts.

Was there no other place that makes t-shirts in a city the size of Lexington? The owner of Hands-On Originals indeed called and found somebody who’d match his pricing. It would appear he was targeted and made an example.

In the case of Hands-On Originals, “fairness” empowers gays to execute economic terrorism on those that refuse to endorse their goals. It functions like a badge of civic invincibility for gays, yes, but also like a sword for punishing opponents, less like a shield of protection against bias.

People nationwide are being penalized, fired, or fined out of existence for opposing the overreaching goals enshrined in bills like “fairness” ordinances.

We saw what happened to Duck Dynasty: “First Amendment? That’s so 1776. This is 2013, speech isn’t free.”, said Randy van Grinder, spokesman for the world’s largest gay rights organizations (H.R.C.) regarding the controversy. Indeed, “fairness” muzzles free speech, creating a suffocating realm of political correctness. Philosopher Voltaire once wrote, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you’re not allowed to criticize.”

“Fairness” is the gilded key to the local infrastructure and institutions, the doorway for flooding them with gay-social-engineering mandates — and that includes small children at schools.

“Fairness” assumes that all women and little girls find it “fair” to have a cross-dressing man share their restrooms and locker rooms with them — an unseemly byproduct of “fairness” ordinances. Girls in a Florence, Colo. school are aghast at the presence of a boy in their bathrooms … and there’s nothing they can do about it (fairness, remember?).

What is or isn’t “fair”? Depends on who’s definition you are citing. In this case, it’s activist zealots who demand an ordinance to permanently silence their opposition. Doesn’t sound remotely “fair” to me, no.

Janie Garza
Lexington

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