Re: rumor control

["Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>]

Doug Wilson wrote:

So if I owned a restaurant and a homosexual couple came in,

And I laughed and laughed.

Seriously, though. If Doug Wilson owned a restaurant in which gay diners 
came to his attention, he would turf them out posthaste.  Those of us who 
are gay and who dine not only with our partners, but our children, aren't 
likely to seek out restaurants where our very existence may prove an 
unendurable affront to the owners halfway through the lamb chops.  After 
all, I have no way of knowing which of my behaviors may seem to call for the 
proprietor's sanction:  trial and error doesn't strike me as the way to find 
out.

The genesis of rumors about Bucer's may possibly be found in just this kind 
of discourse:  it's a short set of jumps in a small town from "I wouldn't 
permit certain kinds of people in my (imaginary)restaurant" to "Their 
minister and seminary director would exclude certain kinds of people" to 
"They must exclude" to "They did exclude."  These are false jumps about 
Bucer's, but not implausible ones, particularly if you're a person who might 
get the bum's rush.

But more broadly, is it really in service to an ideal of freedom that we 
define the right of free association as the limitless power to leave people 
out?  Would Moscow be a better place to live if there were no laws or 
statutes providing equal access for all citizens?

Melynda Huskey

"The things that make us happy make us wise."  John Crowley




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