The Right to Rights – Hop-Scotch

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With the opening of this Pandora’s Box, all that could be done was to wait and see what would come next. The principle of a Right is that it is the same for all peoples within a society; to put it more succinctly Rights can not be seen as a zero sum game where for someone to have, there must be someone to have not. This is why Rights must be both limited in number and simple in expression.

 

Along the way from the zero-sum to no-zero-sum, someone cut the brake line and so the demands made by women just kept on coming thus returning society to the zero-sum mandate. One of the earliest examples of this change was the invasion of what used to be called ‘men’s clubs’, it should be noted that there is no Right to belong to a club. The next marker on this road to ruin was the enforcement of a corporate rule for women only gyms, remember that there is no Right to belong to a club or even a gym. The zero sum game had been taken off the table.

 

The next demand made was a resolution for what was called the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap claimed that there should be ‘equal pay for equal work’. Of course the one problem that these advocates faced was that they had to show that women did equal work. The gender wage gap was born with a scream and it died with a whimper.

 

Of course no deed, good or bad, goes un-noticed. The actions and results of the feminists were noted and as it is said, mimicry is the highest form of flattery. The next lobby group to step up to the Temple of Rights demanding there own door and with their own unique shingle was the homosexual lobby commonly referred to as LGB. In the early days of this movement the stated goal was ‘gay rights’, once again side stepping or skirting around the principle of ‘equal Rights for all’ at least in name and diving towards the label of ‘we are special’.

 

Much like the feminists, the gay lobby missed out on holding society’s feet to the fire on equal rights for all, while that may have been the target, it was off the mark when it came to messaging. After years of protest marches court cases, same-sex marriage was made legal in Canada in 2005 and ten years later in the USA via the decision by SCOTUS in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges.

 

The opportunity to take the win and move on with life was not noticed or intentionally ignored, as the marching continued it was converted into a street party. Even the street party ended up being not enough as ‘PRIDE day’ morphed in ‘PRIDE week’ and even that was considered insufficient and as now there is ‘PRIDE month’ in some countries around the world. It was said that ‘There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation’ by then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau. Well an answer to that bit of reasoning was found by taking the act of sex to the street.  Homosexual activities have broken beyond the barrier of acceptance and made it a celebratory event in the public eye.

 

Of course no deed, good or bad, goes un-noticed. Other groups started clinging on to the LGB pursuit for equality before the law with one difference, some of these new groups sought to up the math on the zero sum game, thus creating a figurative institution of social slavery. To make the point, the current full acronym for what once was LGB has now become LGBTQQIP2SAA. For those readers not in the know of the significance and importance of each letter, Google can be your friend.