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Have we reached our 11th edition yet?

Posted by: Ion | February 14th, 2007 · 12:02 PM

There’s a troubling little court case afoot in the Bear Flagger Republic. It began when an Oakland city employee posted an innocuous flier advertising a meeting for a Christian family chat group…Know where this is going right?

Attorneys Scott Lively and Richard D. Ackerman will be arguing the case before the Ninth Circuit on behalf of an African-American Christian woman who was threatened with termination at her job with the City of Oakland. The City of Oakland claims that references to the “natural family, marriage and family values” constitute hate speech which is scary to city workers.

Assuming the Ninth Circus rules predictably against the employees, the Newspeak Dictionary will likely have a fresh edition, as more language is removed from conversational acceptability. As in Orwell, the slow erasure of the language by political interests, is designed to make dissent impossible to express or understand if it is. The consequences of that principle here, are potentially broad:

[it] could silence debate about homosexuality and related issues in the entire Western United States since the Ninth Circuit controls a large region of the United States and its rulings are binding on millions of employees whose speech is subject to punishment…

Here’s the full story

Ackerman’s Pro-Family Law Center is providing partial funding for the employees legal representation, if you’d like to aid the cause: Donate

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