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UK woman fired from her job at a school for posting same-sex marriage disapproval

mardi 22 septembre 2020 à 02:00

A woman in the UK was fired from her job at a school for posting, elsewhere, a statement disapproving of same-sex marriage.

I disagree with her views, but we must respect her right to state them. Her employer should have to respect that, too.

As it happens, she made the statement based on her religion, but that should make no difference. An Atheist should also have the same right to state those views, or other views, as a religious believer.

Urgent: End oil drilling in California

mardi 22 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Everyone: call on California Governor Newsom to end oil drilling in that state.

Urgent: Investigate attacks by thugs on BLM protesters in Wisconsin

mardi 22 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Everyone: call on Wisconsin Attorney General Kaul to investigate attacks by thugs on BLM protesters.

Mass arrests of protesting women

mardi 22 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Lukashenko's thugs are now trying mass arrests of protesting women.

Bringing back normal

mardi 22 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*A Biden victory cannot bring normal back.*

Even if it could, that would hardly be desirable except in contrast to the present. The old "normal" was pretty bad for most Americans, and climate mayhem is making it rapidly worse.

The article uses the non-US definition of "liberalism", meaning deregulation of business. In the US, "liberalism" is the term we have used for many decades for the agenda now more often called "progressive".

Medical care for all has been a liberal program since the New Deal. Likewise workers' rights, and support for the poor. By the 1960s it included racial equality. By the 70s, it included women's equality, gay rights, and eliminating pollution.

Why, I wonder, does anyone think to define the term "liberal" to refer to self-styled "centrists" such as right-wing Democrats?