The Myth of "Special Rights"
Filed by dentedbluemercedes
November 26, 2010
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/the-myth-of-special-rights/ (http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/the-myth-of-special-rights/)
(Originally written for GayCalgary Magazine, and adapted in response to "When Some Are More Equal Than Others")
Recent years have seen a regression with regards to the concept of human rights. Most often, this push-back is in response to legislation that would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and / or trans people, and is often accompanied by claims of infringement on freedom of speech, and / or that human rights legislation grants "special rights" to protected classes.
Complaints about "special rights" often look like the response to the Canadian trans rights Bill C-389 made at Timothy Bloedow's Christian Governance, by John Newnham:
"So someone assaulted allegedly over being a ->-bleeped-<- is considered more valuable in law than a plain ordinary victim of domestic violence or hit and run."
It isn't about 'special rights". it is about "Equal rights".