Liberals seem to suffer a strange myopia about their issues and causes. They seem to unable to accept that people do not really think as they do or that other people's values and beliefs are as dearly held as their own. They seem to think that they can change those attitudes with their own decrees and the idea of people standing on their own principles does not seem to occur to them.

In a discussion of same sex marriage on this very MB I contended that it DOES violate non-participants' rights because of the backlash that same-sex marriage laws would create. This case is a perfect example of what I was talking about. A tiny percentage wants something, so they resort to force to get it, and seem to think that compelling people to do something will simply make their desires become reality. They honestly cannot believe that opposition to their view of the issue means as much to their adversaries or that the other side would rather make a sacrifice than accept what the liberal is trying to impose on them. As result, the whole thing is ruined for everyone. For a certain value of ruined, of course. It IS just a high school prom, which, IMO is not worth fighting to attend or getting upset over its cancellation. But the same goes for same-sex marriage. There are people who are THAT opposed to homosexuality, and possessed of sufficient numbers and power, that forcing them to extend to same-sex marriages the same privileges and rights that normal marriages enjoy will cause them to withdraw those rights and privileges rather than extend them to homsexuals!

Of course, some homosexual advocates are just fine with that, despite the fact that in many cases those privileges or traditions are based on the heretofore heterosexist nature of marriage, e.g. extending medical benefits to an employee's spouse. But the fact remains, to accomodate one person's selfish need to have things all her own way, it was ruined for everyone. In the article, the lesbian in question cites her belief that they would not back down: "'A lot of people said that was going to happen, but I said, they had already spent too much money on the prom' to cancel it, she said."
Yet she also claims:
"'It's a small town in Mississippi, and it's run by an older generation with money. Most of them are more conservative and they don't agree with it,' she said."

She evidently somehow assumed that HER dedication to her principles and values was superior to that of her older, more powerful adversaries! She was standing up for her principles but it never occurred to her that other people were every bit as committed to THEIR principles.

This is the blindness I am talking about with liberals - they are perfectly willing to cite the faults and wrongness of the other side's position, yet it never occurrs to them to extrapolate the logical course of action. They are quick to accuse their opponents of bigotry and hatred, or greed or recalcitrance, yet they seem to think that people will take negative emotions every bit as far as positive ones. They accused corporations of being heartless and greedy and caring only about profits, yet somehow they think that when they regulate and tax the corporations, those heartless entities which would do anything for a buck, will meekly accept their punishment and sulkily hoard their dwindling resources, rather than raise the prices of the goods they sell to cover their tax and legal expenses. They are heartless and greedy enough to do anything...except pass along their expenses to the customer! No, a corporation would NEVER stoop THAT low!

Likewise with racism. People who want black people excluded from some activities are motivated by hatred of their skin color, according to liberals, and so it is perfectly all right to punish them for actions that keep black people away from those who hate them. So they force racists to accept blacks among them, and then get surprised when the racists look for loopholes that will allow them to vent their hatred in ways that won't get them punished, or gang up to terrorize blacks in secret for daring to infringe on their previously white territory.

They seem to think that being made to give up one area of their hatred and spite will magically make them behave in all other aspects. Men exclude women from entering certain jobs and fields with them because they are sexist pigs, the women proclaim as they force their way into those spheres of activity... and then are astounded to find that men in those areas behave like sexist pigs!

Liberals simply cannot seem to grasp that the other side is just as willing to spoil things for liberals as liberals are to spoil things for them. A liberal thinks she can force the school and tradition-minded students to accept their vision of the prom being spoiled by a same-sex couple imitating a heterosexual couple, and is flabbergasted when the school is just as willing to spoil it for everyone by cancelling it, as she was to spoil it by pretending to be a boy.

The assertions that liberal causes are "no threat" to people doing things the normal way are shown in this incident to be disingenuous and deceitful at worst, shortsighted and foolish at best.

Additionally, I found the yahoo! headline obnoxiously misleading. "School cancels prom after student's date request" No, actually, they cancelled the prom when the student tried to make a federal case about it, and sued to force it to conform to HER position. If a school cancelled a prom because a student tried to get a court order to let her kick off the prom with a prayer, every major media outlet to cover the story would be taking the "Obnoxious Christians spoil prom for everyone" angle. And so would Aisha.