LGBT: Winning game of rights

Pickleball is to tennis what LGBT is to straight. At first glance this analogy sounds farfetched, but the similarities between the pickleball/tennis wars in Coeur d’Alene and the gay/straight wars in the U.S. are too strong to ignore.

Recently the city converted three tennis courts at Northshire Park into pickleball courts. But this wasn’t enough for the pickleball ambassadors. There are now permanent pickleball lines on another six of Coeur d’Alene’s newest tennis courts, two at McEuen and four at Cherry Hill. Now tennis has nothing against pickleball, but pickleball has something against tennis as proved by the pickleballers’ eagerness to infringe on the purity and integrity of tennis.

In similar fashion the LGBT ambassadors seek to infringe on the integrity and wholesomeness of straight Coeur d’Alene citizens. Our City Council voted on the LGBT antidiscrimination ordinance. Not good enough. Now there are demands for transgender bathrooms. What? A separate gender-bender bathroom in every public building and school?

Never happen here, you say. Oh? Doesn’t the rainbow symbol of LGBT already stand at the entrance to McEuen Park?

Whether the lines are blurred on a tennis court or in gender identity, destructive confusion is created. This is especially true in the young, whether trying to learn the art of tennis or the art of life.

Pickleball is fine for pickleball courts, but becomes obnoxious and destructive when forced on tennis courts. LGBT is fine for the gay community but becomes obnoxious and destructive when forced on straight society.

JIM JACKSON

Coeur d’Alene