The Daily Top Five

My fever addled brain has compiled these stories:

1. Jeff Emanuel brings us the story of a Christian Fraternity suing to enforce its right to admit members it chose to admit, i.e. Christians, against the University of Georgia. At issue was an anti-discrimination policy:

which requires that student organizations include in their constitution, and adhere to, the statement that "Membership shall not be denied to any person because of age, race, sex, religion, handicap, sexual orientation, or national origin."

What is interesting comes later in the article:

Though it took legal coercing, in this the University of Georgia corrected a wrong and made the right decision. Next, though, the school must follow through on its promise to “review and change” its nondiscrimination policy. As Timothy Tracey of the Christian Legal Society said Thursday, “We need a long-term solution and just saying, 'You, Beta Upsilon Chi, will be recognized,' isn't good enough. We need a policy change.”

A policy change is indeed necessary. A blanket, one-size-fits-all program to provide a politically correct end to all discrimination cannot be enacted without inadvertently discriminating against some of those whom it was designed to protect. Enacting a policy which forbids an organization based around a common defining characteristic to acknowledge that characteristic when determining its membership is a proposition which is as foolhardy as it is unworkable.

What seems to be missing from the reporting is the stupidity behind the policy, not as it applies to the Christian fraternity, but what the rule said. Under the policy, a man would be able to join a sorority and have a good case if he were denied admission. After all, the sorority would be required to have the nondiscrimination policy.

2. Well, duh! Imagine that, school performance improves when students needing vision and hearing assistance gets it.

3. Here is an update on the state of School Choice in America.

4. Kofi Annan bids farewell (good riddance, I say) in the Washington Post today. Captain Ed calls it what it is:

If his rule hadn't resulted in such worldwide misery and despair, it would be one of the funniest pieces of opinion journalism so far this year.

5. Finally, Tammy Bruce sheds a little light in the Sea-Tac Airport Christmas tree dismantling:

The rabbi should have simply asked, and not threatened to sue. I have no problem at all with the idea of a menorah going up, but the bottom line is, 95 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas. This gorwing obsession with everyone everywhere needing to see their representation is the impact of narcissism and its increasing control of people's lives.

Narcissism fuel "diversity." An interesting theory.