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Prager discussed the decision of federal judge Thomas Coffin that it is unfair for a disabled man to walk between holes. Whenever there is competition between standards for society and compassion for individuals, you choose compassion. We have compassion for atheist Boy Scouts, so we require the Boy Scouts to drop their standard of a pledge to God. DP believes that sports should be able to set their own rules. If the PGA says that golfers should walk between holes, that is their perogative. If you don't like the PGA's rules, you start your own organization. How dare a judge tell a professional sport about its rules.
Does my heart go out to this guy? Yes. But that is irrelevant. DP has a golfing disability. He can't golf well. Should his clubs be different? Why not? This decision exemplifies how people's hearts and judge coercion combine to coerce.
DP says he's read three articles on the decision, and he hasn't found one persuasive argument for the judge's decision.
DP says there is no fight left in Americans. A judge rules, and people roll over. A judge in New Jersey announces that same sex couples can adopt children as readily as anyone else, going against centuries of western tradition. We should not have senators and congressmen. Because it is pointless for them to pass laws, when there are judges who will (in effect) pass their own laws.
What particularly galls DP is the dishonesty on the part of the left - from the Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade making up a right to privacy, to this judge making up that the PGA is a public accomodation. Private groups should be allowed to have their own silly rules.
You may not like the PGA rule, but you do like the Boy Scout pledge. Outsiders told the PGA that walking from hole to hole is irrelevant. Just like outsiders told the Scouts that the pledge to God is irrelevant.
Prager says that these activist judges are high on power, the aiblity to reshape society…
2:08 PM
A Fullerton junior school has banned hugs. DP can well imagine that some students hug in a an unwholesome manner, not befitting their age, being in public and in school. I sympathize with that possibility. When DP grew up, 25 years ago, when you did something inappropriate publicly, someone told you to stop. They never thought that you would have to ban all conduct that might lead to bad results. Instead, this school banned all hugs and touching. They refused to teach that there is appropriate touch and inappropriate. "Jeremy, that is not proper. Please do not do that again."
Why is hugging in school wrong? I love to see my son hug people. I think that is terrific. I am a big hugger. We hug all the time.
I think that what is behind this is fear of litigation, fear of harassment suits. Educators aren't educating. They are banning instead of teaching.
Remember the kids who gave a cough drop and were suspended because the school had a "zero tolerance drug policy."
CALLER: What will we do with the bumper stickers "Hugs not drugs."
DP: There is a lack of deep thought… Instead of dividing between appropriate killing and inappropriate killing, some say, all killing is wrong. Moral judgements are hard and take thought.
CALLER: We are getting away from right and wrong but legal and illegal.
A Jewish principle at a Reform Judaism day school: I hug my kids all the time. What does this teach kids? How will it affect their future relationships?
DP: It eroticizes hugs…
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