{"id":10587,"date":"2015-05-06T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2015-05-06T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:50:12","slug":"questioning-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/questioning-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning the \u201cnew normal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sally Falk\u2019s letter Students stand in Solidarity With Equality Movement should please all the social engineers who have diligently labored to overturn once normative values in Canada.
\nGender identity is now a construct? Sally might want to check that with the more than 100,000 parents in Ontario against such \u201cinclusivity\u201d (also see the American Psychiatric Association on gender identity).
\nMs. Falk\u2019s letter raises one key question: if this is the new normal is there any normal left? But then, the word \u201cnormal\u201d itself is probably contentious in the moral anarchy now prevailing.
\nIt all brings to mind the old couplet that applies to this new era of social engineers: \u201cThis humanist whom no beliefs constrained, grew so broad-minded he was scatterbrained.\u201d
\nGod help us.<\/p>\n

Rick Doust
\nAurora
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Sally Falk\u2019s letter Students stand in Solidarity With Equality Movement should please all the social engineers who have diligently labored to overturn once normative values in Canada. Gender identity is now a construct? Sally might want to check that with the more than 100,000 parents in Ontario against such \u201cinclusivity\u201d (also see the American Psychiatric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2KL","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 09:31:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}