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Davis: PFOX, Theft, and Tolerance
I had a UPS package stolen off my building’s doorstep a few years ago. Once I got over my annoyance with the UPS guy for leaving it essentially out in the open in the middle of a city block, I had to start laughing.
What the thief or thieves had gotten away with were early versions of some books a friend had asked me to review: Three Buddhist manuscripts.
The mental image of the thieves – for some reason I always pictured three hardened criminals, but in sort of a Bowery Boys style – excitedly ripping open their sudden, ill-gotten bounty only to find page upon closely printed page on the futility of desire kept me giggling for days.
Every now and then I still wonder if one of the Bowery Boys actually picked up the manuscripts and started reading, and if he was at all changed as a result.
I bring it up because an intriguing press release made its way to my in-box today.
PFOX, or “Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays” has won a case in the District of Columbia’s Superior Court. PFOX sued the National Education Association for “failing to protect ex-gays” in its anti-discrimination policies.
The ruling is that “former homosexuals” must be treated as a sexual orientation under the District’s non-discrimination laws.
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Sigh.
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