| WDIV has a story on Tom McMillin's war on local non-discrimination ordinances, Naturally, what's at the heart of it is "discrimination" against Christians and Boy Scouts, which is to say that what Tom McMillin considers to be discrimination are local laws prohibiting organizations within the municipal boundaries from practicing discrimination. Also, he opposes a "patchwork" of anti-discrimination ordinances, although if he really wants to wage a war to promote a consistency that would be helpful to people, he ought to be looking at the state's huge, vast, unregulated patchwork of zoning ordinances and master plans. But, I think most of us are probably pretty certain that it's not so much the idea of a patchwork that has McMillin's panties in a twist, but what that patchwork says (i.e. it gives a competitive disadvantage to communities not stuck in the Dark Ages). This is a time-honored tactic, last seen used last year when McMillin and Goat Killer in two entirely different media outlets argued that the only bigots involved in their anti-Sharia bill were those people who saw no need to use state law to establish the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land. The frequency of its use doesn't excuse the fact that it is an inherently silly argument forwarded by people who really can't muster a more sound argument for the bill than, "I know you are, but what am I?" Also, people who want to defend idiocy like this. Troy Mayor Janice Daniels did not draw a connection between homosexuality and mental illness during a meeting in January, but she did indicate that she believes the homosexual lifestyle is dangerous.
...snip... But a recording of the meeting, released to the Free Press on Friday based on a Freedom of Information Act request to the city, provides the actual exchange about plans for an event in the city pitched at various times as an anti-bullying or anti-suicide seminar. Daniels said she would "bring in psychiatrists who will tell you that the homosexual lifestyle is dangerous."
Well, actually, that is drawing a connection between homosexuality and mental illness, since you probably aren't going to call in a psychiatrist to say that homosexuals have a greater incidence of sexually-transmitted diseases than non-homosexuals. If you wanted to draw that connection, you'd call in a pathologist. But, still, we get the point. If you get down to the last paragraph, once again it's Janice Daniels who is the victim here, not the people who she disparaged. Luckily, Tom McMillin (and probably the Goat Killer) has her back in the state House. |
