Almost without exception, if you want something you are doing to be accepted in today’s society, all you have to do is claim that it is your right. “I have the right to do such and such.” “You cannot take my right to this.”
“Rights” are now the call word or battle cry of all variances of human behavior, but do we even know what the word means? When used in the context of social acceptance and legal battles, it seems that we have no real clue what the term means. It is as if we have lost the meaning.
The reason for this is that the term has begun to be used as a hammer and wedge. Various groups have used “rights” as a means to separate Americans from themselves and normal behavior. Where there is a desire to act, feel or think in a certain way, therein is…
