{"id":2236,"date":"2002-07-22T07:01:21","date_gmt":"2002-07-22T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2002-07-22T07:01:21","modified_gmt":"2002-07-22T12:01:21","slug":"yes_no_or_it_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/22\/yes_no_or_it_de.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, No, or It Depends"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the Saturday Scruples!<\/a> …<\/p>\n

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?<\/b> <\/p>\n

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 <\/i>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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/b> <\/p>\n

Yes. <\/p>\n

“Hey, hey, don’t be mean. You don’t have to be mean.”<\/i>
\n        — Buckaroo Banzai<\/p>\n

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?<\/b><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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