Morning, visionaries Jon also inquires: “Perhaps we could agree that equal opportunity to access social goods is a fundamental principle of this society . . .” This sounds grand as a slogan. But is a private club, members only, a social good? Is a restaurant owner’s desire to manage a place that maintains a certain …
Free Enterprise
Visionaries, Jon argues for the propriety of restraining the biases of business owners by referring to: “A fundamental principle of the social contract to which we are all parties . . .” In this, he has begun to address the question we have been asking since the beginning of this meandering debate, back when we …
Seeping Postmodernism
For many reasons, none of them intellectually compelling, postmodern thinking proper, along with postmodern assumptions unacknowledged, are making great headway in the “post-conservative” evangelical world. One lesson that we can take from the postmodernist playbook in this reqard is that is that fooling around with language is actually a disguised power grab. While denying their …
Legal or Moral?
Dear visionaries, In response to Randall, I fully understand that the current legal situation makes a distinction between speech and restaurant management. I want to know why. How come? By what standard? What is so magical about speech? Why is the First Amendment first misunderstood and then absolutized? Why is the Tenth Amendment ignored? Give …
Flew the Coop
Just read on a news site that the famous atheist Anthony Flew has become a deist of sorts. He has not come to the Christian faith, or anything like that, but has abandoned a lifetime of naturalism because in his mind the evidence for intelligent design is compelling. While some will try to dismiss this …
Sins and Crimes
Dear visionaries, Just got back from Santa Cruz. The folks down there make all our local Moscow progressives look like mossback conservatives. It is a pleasure to be back. That said . . . Susannah detected a whiff of old Lester Maddox in my defense of the property rights of business owners. George did much …
Racist Progressives
Dear visionaries, A brief interaction with Robert, who thinks that I am forcing my moral standards, feeling threatened as I am, because a gay couple has entered my establishment holding hands. So, I am forcing my moral standards on someone who comes on to my property in order to challenge my standards? Or do you …
Hate Crimes and Private Property
Dear visionaries, Now that some progressives have been revealed as malice and/or ignorance mongers with regard to Christian businesses, I want to add two cents on the individual rights front — because this is where a far more important issue is. This also relates to our other discussion on hate crimes — which is increasingly …
Discrimination and Puppy Victims
Dear visionaries, A leader in our town’s liberal elite doesn’t think kicking puppies is a discriminatory event? Where is PETA when you need them? Cordially, Douglas Wilson “Homophobes are people too.” Charlesmagne “Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local …
Squelching Rumors
Dear visionaries, So, someone wants to know if a Discrimination Event occurred in a local coffee emporium owned by Christians? Rumor control, aye. So then I heard that there is a special room in the basement of the admin building where the president of the University of Idaho goes every day at noon and kicks …