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They will know we are Christians by our love, the continuing series

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Lee M.

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I’m in pretty much total agreement with this post by Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings (via Jim Henley). The idea that I, as part of my public Christian witness, ought to be concerned with denouncing my co-workers’ (real or imagined) sins, at work, strikes me as bizarre. Seems to me that my boss would be well justified in telling me to get back to work under such circumstances.

Moreover, the whole underlying argument against same-sex marriage now seems to boil down to: extending equal rights to gay people will make it harder to…treat them as second-class citizens. Well, yeah.

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2 responses to “They will know we are Christians by our love, the continuing series”

  1. Rick Ritchie

    I think I’m in pretty broad agreement with you on how Dreher’s ideas are wrong. What would your ideal be? Not so much your ideal Christian practice. But your ideal political arrangements for workplace freedoms?

    I have to say that I have some concerns here. It has less to do with what kinds of speech are and are not allowed and more to do with their being scrutinized in the first place.

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  2. Lee

    Well, I do think there’s a danger when we try to substitute ever-more-detailed rules for good judgment, manners, and common sense. That being said, maybe sexual harassment provides a helpful analogy: I seem to remember that some people expressed concern that sexual harassment policies would impose a kind of totalitarian freeze on relations between the sexes in the workplace. But, as far as I can tell, this hasn’t happened. People still flirt, date, etc. in the workplace, but have generally learned where to draw the lines (unwanted advances, quid pro quo, “hostile environment”, and so on). Is it too optimistic to hope that a similar modus vivendi could be established here? (I suspect that in many cases it already has been.)

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