Philosophers Defend Bigotry
I try to avoid inflamatory language, but this petition is upsetting: philosophers splitting hairs in support of policies that discriminate against homosexuals (HT: Leiter Reports). Their main point seems to be that you are not really discriminating against homosexuals as long as you are not asking them to change their sexual orientation but simply to abstain from homosexual behavior. As someone else pointed out in this discussion, it's like saying that you are not really discriminating against Christians as long as you are not asking them to change their belief but simply to abstain from going to Church or profess their beliefs in any way. Actually, it seems to me worse than that. Fortunately, the petition is attracting very little support. Most names of serious philosophers who initially appeared as signatories have been removed, presumably because their names were added by someone else.
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4/3/2009 9:37 AM
Brains wrote:
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside marriage) or change its policy.In response, there is a counterpetition, which is also being presented to the APA, asking the APA to do nothing, because the alleged discrimination is not actually discrimination.As I pointed out before, it should be blindingly obvious to anyone whose mind is not clouded by ... -
4/3/2009 9:37 AM
Brains wrote:
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside marriage) or change its policy.In response, there is a counterpetition, which is also being presented to the APA, asking the APA to do nothing, because the alleged discrimination is not actually discrimination.As I pointed out before, it should be blindingly obvious to anyone whose mind is not clouded by ... -
4/3/2009 9:47 AM
Brains wrote:
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside marriage) or change its policy.In response, there is a counterpetition, which is also being presented to the APA, asking the APA to do nothing, because the alleged discrimination is not actually discrimination.As I pointed out before, it should be blindingly obvious to anyone whose mind is not clouded by ... -
4/3/2009 9:51 AM
Brains wrote:
Next week, at the Pacific APA, a petition on discrimination will be presented to the APA. The petition asks the APA to either enforce its own policy against discrimination (specifically, de facto discrimination against homosexuality by certain religious institutions that require their employees to commit to having no sex outside marriage) or change its policy.In response, there is a counterpetition, which is also being presented to the APA, asking the APA to do nothing, because the alleged discrimination is not actually discrimination.As I pointed out before, it should be blindingly obvious to anyone whose mind is not clouded by ...
I was particularly interested in the signer of the counter-petition, now removed, named "Jesus H. Christ Th.D." from "Heaven University".
I figured they'd want that name on their petition to give it some degree of legitimacy...
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