If ever you wonder why those thumping loudest for tolerance and diversity produce so much sameness, look no further than this little exchange on public television about an important case now before the Supreme Court. The dean is Leo Martinez of the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Here he is defending the school policy at issue, which requires the Christian Legal Society (CLS) to admit non-Christians and gays if it wants to be an official student group:
Question: “Would a student chapter of, say, B’nai B’rith, a Jewish Anti-Defamation League, have to admit Muslims?”
Mr. Martinez: “The short answer is ‘yes.’”
Question: “A black group would have to admit white supremacists?”
Mr. Martinez: “It would.”
Question: “Even if it means a black student organization is going to have to admit members of the Ku Klux Klan?”
Mr. Martinez: “Yes.”
Question: “You can see where that might cause some consternation?”
It may end up, of course, that Dean Martinez prevails, and we get more of his idea of tolerance and diversity. Let’s not pretend to be surprised, however, when it all comes out looking the same.
