Stranger Than Fiction
This from the online version of the Times Herald-Record in New York State:

Skate Time 209 offers residents a new wooden roller skating rink and a fancy skateboard park. In its hunt for customers, the business has "tot" skates and "tween" (ages 6-13) skates. There are family nights and adult disco parties.

And there are "Christian skate times" on Sunday afternoons, Skate Time's ad in the April 19 Ulster County Press said. That ad is evidence of a human rights violation, according to the state Division of Human Rights.

A "Christian skate denies or at a minimum, discourages non-Christian patronage," a June 15 letter from the state division said. The weekly paper got the same letter, accusing it of "aiding and abetting" the violation, said its editor-at-large, Greg Childers.

I almost don't know what to say. It boggles the imagination- not to mention any degree of common sense- to think that this has any sense of reality to it. What in the world would compel such a reaction? Fear? Anger? Past hurts? An inflated sense of ego-power? A completely false understanding of what true diversity can mean?

At least I know that the daily news will never fail to surprise, shock, and baffle me.