I had to pass this along

From The Dawn Patrol:

A libertarian think tank in New Zealand is causing a stir with its publication of writer Glenn Peoples’s essay on the inequity of taypayer funds’ being used for antismoking campaigns and not antisodomy campaigns.

“I’m no fan of smoking,” Peoples writes,”…But I am even less a fan of enforced political correctness and double standards. Here’s the challenge I want to consider: Why is it acceptable to use taxpayer dollars to rake smokers over the coals, to insult them…to call them sick and unhealthy, to assert that their lifestyle is undesired, and to tell them they ought to quit, while it would be unacceptable to do the same to those men who engage in sexual acts with one another, or to put it rather archaically, sodomy (I realise the term offends a lot of people, but I deliberately use it throughout this article just because it is offensive in order to make the point about offending a particular group of people)? Why can’t we stigmatise them? For the sake of clarity, I’m not asking for permission to do so, since I have no intention of doing so. All I’m doing is comparing the two cases, and arguing that political correctness has so infiltrated our media that we often just don?t see the double standard….”

The reason I had to pass this along is this: take a look at the name of the “libertarian think tank in New Zealand.”