OPINION:
Kim R. Holmes’ analysis of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of today’s world is a gem (“The Supreme Court: Speaking power to truth,” Web, June 29). Mr. Holmes writes: “Self-prescribed identities trump everything, including nature. What and who is to separate reality from delusion?”
Former NAACP executive Rachel Dolezal thinks she is black — because evidently she wants to be black. In reality, she is white (or so her birth parents say). Former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner thinks he is now female, though he has chosen to keep his male anatomy. I think I am female, and my body agrees with me. Does that mean I truly am a female, or that I just think I am?
The TV show “20/20” recently had a show about a married couple with two small sons. The husband is biologically female and the wife is biologically male. One son tells his little friends that his “mommy has a penis.” Is this child being truthful or does he just think he is being truthful? Oh, what a tangled web we weave. If this child’s parents had maintained what by appearance seemed to be the truth, one of them would still be male, the other female.
How many murders in Baltimore have been attributed to the Confederate flag — or is it that we just think the flag is the cause? Will our children even know the meaning of the word truth only the meaning we want them to know? As Mr. Holmes writes: “Reality is not a Rorschach test. Sometimes a cigar is a cigar.”
JACQUELINE A. POSTAL
Silver Spring
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