I thought “progressives” were supposed to believe in a strict separation of church and state. But if so, what was the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco doing it when it passed a resolution condemning a rally held in the city by “[m]ore than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth” as an
“act of provocation” by what it termed an “anti-gay,” “anti-choice” organization that aimed to “negatively influence the politics of America’s most tolerant and progressive city.”
San Francisco may be nation’s most “progressive” city, but its Board of Supervisors is not very “tolerant” of any effort — especially, it would appear, any religous effort — “to ‘negatively influence’” city politics. [HatTip to Drudge]
Perhaps the Supervisors should all be impeached for splitting an infinitive.
The nature of
the “progress” of these self-proclaimed “progressives” is a mystery. In what way does open (indeed, officially promulgated) religious hatred constitute “progress?”
Progress towards WHAT?
“America’s most tolerant and progressive city”. They say that about themselves?
Well.
My own experience has taught me, for instance, that the person who proclaims himself to be honest and trustworthy should be fled at high speed for the lying scoundrel he most likely is.
My husband was in San Francisco this past weekend. He saw literally a handful of other black people. Thomas Sowell has written extensively about how the city policies, including environmental laws, have made blacks unable to afford living there. So where is the low cost housing? Where is the liberalism? Now, I really don’t care if many blacks live there or not. No doubt rich black people do. But it’s just another interesting example of how little connection there is between liberal words and liberal deeds.
I lived in SF for 26 years, and finally move to the burbs in 1999. I still work for the city. SF’s about 6% black, about 20% Hispanic, 35% Asian, and the rest assorted “whites”, mostly Irish, Russian, Italian, and others. San Francisco is not a tolerant city. It “tolerates” only those who toe the PC line. If you voice doubts on the received PC wisdom, you are immediately denounced as a “racist” or “fascist”, or worse. The city government came under the control of the “progressives” in the early 1990s. Ten years later, we see a once-great city in ruins. Absolutely nothing works here. The rent control is so severe that there are an estimated 20,000 vacant units that owners will simply not rent, due to restrictions imposed on property by rent control. Building anything can take years of “public meetings”, where professional “activists” and berate builders for not giving away more units to “the poor”. The city is trying to mandate a 35% “affordable” component to all housing construction, where some tenants are forced to subsidize others who can’t afford the rent. Our streets are filty, inhabited by some 5000 vagrants that the city will do nothing about. You don’t dare complain, as doing so will label you “classist”, or “elitist”. If you are white, you come last, no matter what the issue. Our schools are awful, as families leave in droves and race permeates every discussion. Businesses are leaving in droves for the comfortable, affluent suburbs where life is relatively normal. There’s no real reason to come her anymore, except for tourists. The burbs have all the amenities SF used to have, from good restaurants to entertainment. This used to be a great town. Now, its an exhibit of how NOT to govern. If you want to see what ten years of “progressive” rule does to a city, come and look.