Author: Crowhill Report

When football coaches pray

You’ve probably heard about the recent SCOTUS case involving a high school football coach who would pray on the 50 yard line after each game. He didn’t invite anyone to join him, but some people did. He was fired. (William sent along this article about it, which he correctly calls “skewed.”)

Everybody is supposed to have freedom of religion, and freedom from religion. The freedom of religion perspective would say the coach has every right to pray and can’t be fired for that. The freedom from religion perspective would argue the coach was subtly coercing students to pray, since he would clearly be more sympathetic towards the people who joined him.

I see merit in both arguments, but the former is more immediate and the latter more speculative. We can’t curtail a clear right on the chance that it causes some harm.

Of course, no one will address the actual problem, which is government-run schools. So many of these first amendment problems would vanish if schools weren’t run by the government.

Do I have to acknowledge this “fictosexual” weirdness?

Some doofus has “married” a hologram.

‘Fictosexual’ man married hologram bride, but now struggles to bond with her

It’s amusing, and he can do whatever he likes (within some limits), but do the rest of us have to affirm this craziness? Or celebrate it?

The world is so strange today, you have to wonder when it will come to that — that you’ll be considered a horrible person if you don’t refer to Hatsune Miku (the hologram) as this guy’s wife.

Oh. And do you remember the slippery slope arguments about gay marriage?

What will be the consequences of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter?

He may restore Donald Trump and the Babylon Bee, and some might see that as a great win, but I think the problems with social media are far deeper than that.

Twitter is not “the public square,” and it makes me sad to hear people say that it is.

There is no debate happening on Twitter. It’s a failed enterprise from the get-go, and nothing Musk can do will fix it.

What do you think?