It’s the Saturday Scruples! …
1. Your son’s Fifth Grade teacher is proud to be gay. He espouses gay family values in class. Do you protest to the principal?
It depends on what “espouses gay family values in class” means. I have no problem with a gay 5th Grade teacher. I have no problem with my child knowing that he’s gay. I have no problem with him talking about how he and his SO/DP/mate/snooky-lumps built a new back deck, or went up to Vail to go skiing, or whatever. I have no problem with him talking about how he and his are adopting a kid. If what it means, though, is that he’s directly advocating a particular family arrangement, then I don’t think it’s any more proper than having the teacher up there preaching about how marriage is 1 man + 1 woman + 2.14 kids.
1. As a joke, a co-worker sends anonymous love letters to another co-worker who takes them seriously. Everyone is enjoying the prank. Do you expose it?
Yes.
“Hey, hey, don’t be mean. You don’t have to be mean.”
— Buckaroo Banzai
3. Due to a mix-up the tax department fines you $500 for tax evasion. You’re completely innocent but it’ll cost $5000 to fight in court. Do you fight on principle?
Assuming this means there’s no way to recover the $5K in court costs, no, I don’t. I just blog the hell out of it and give everyone involved a black eye.