Re: Don't make us call you chicken: take the public debate challenge!

["Gregory Dickison" <gdickison@moscow.com>]

Tom Hansen wrote:

> Muscovites for Equal Rights is simply attempting to guarantee equality
under
> the law, a right mandated by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.  I
> assume by your statement that you are a right-wing Reaganite.  You talk
> about equal rights, but you don't openly support them.  What makes your
> statement even scarier is that you are an attorney.  What side of the
aisle
> do you sit during a sexual harrassment law suit?
>
Why is it that people who are offended when labels are applied to them have
no trouble applying them to others? No, I am not a "right-wing Reaganite."

I do support equal rights. What I do not support is a simplistic and
oppressive definition of equality which finds its expression in the concept
that if men get to take their shirts of on Main Street, then women do, too.
That's nonsense. And modern sexual harassment law reflects this. I don't
want to be on either side of the aisle if the whole courtroom is full of
nitwits.

And "scary?" Apparently expressions of lawyerphobia are what pass for debate
these days. "A different idea? Quick! Whack it!"

Gregory C. Dickison
Lawyer & Counselor at Law
Post Office Box 8846
312 South Main Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
(208) 882-4009