Marriage creates and binds families, and families create society.
Social decisions are collective, by definition. So too is the meaning of words. Words mean what most people take them to mean.
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If minorities want a public concession, they should ask the public's permission.
In a 1999 case to which nobody paid much attention (Law versus Canada), the Supreme Court ruled that a person's minority rights are violated if he or she feels marginalized, ignored and devalued. [italics mine]
In other words, the majority is to be tyrannized by the hurt feelings of minorities -- or at least of those minorities whose behaviour the courts choose to protect from criticism.
Judgments like Law vs. Canada are so arbitrary, fuzzy and open-ended you begin to suspect that these judges are not just out of control, you wonder if they live on the same planet as the rest of us.
My Commentary:
***[A] person's minority rights are violated if he or she feels marginalized, ignored and devalued***
At times, I feel "marginalized, ignored and devalued". Is there a minority to which I could apply for admission? What will the courts do for me, me, me--and all the other marginalized, misunderstood, or just plain misfits? Duh!
Think about these words this weekend -- found here Sept. 19, 03. Link cuts through it all.
