Leila argues that cultural taboos are often a good thing. Then I reflect on the brouhaha over ballplayers who don’t want to wear “Pride” caps, and the broader questions. Is this a religious-freedom issue, or a freedom of speech (which implies freedom to be silent) issue, or both?
Show Notes:
The Giants’ Pride cap is compelled political speech
JUN 16
The Power of the Powerless, by Václav Havel
Live Not by Lies, by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.
We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!
This is the way, then, the easiest and most accessible for us given our deep-seated organic cowardice, much easier than (it’s scary even to utter the words) civil disobedience à la Gandhi.
Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies!
Robert Reilly, Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (affiliate link)
Sword of Honor trilogy, by Evelyn Waugh (affiliate link)
“Evelyn Waugh,” Rev. Paul Mankowski, S.J., Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome
