When will these type of stories join history's waste basket?
Activists in Kentucky are planning a peaceful response after two gay men with developmental and intellectual disabilities were kicked out of a public pool.
A maintenance technician reportedly cited the Bible while telling the two men they couldn't swim at The Pavilion, a government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky.
When people working with the disabled person pointed out that the actions of the public pool staff were completely and legally-defined as discriminatory, the response was (wait for it)
The man stated that what he was doing was in the Bible and he could do it.
Well THAT settles it.
When I read stories such as this, I forget what it must be to live in "the rest of the world". I have worked for public colleges and universities for so long, where anything approaching this type of behavior has been long proscribed, and indeed where I have a hand in enforcing such proscriptions, that it seems actions like this are coming from a place that has become alien to me.
Anyone have this feeling? Does your atheism/rationality/progressiveness make you feel like an outsider? How do you choose to deal with those feelings?
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