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?/Jim Jackson, of Coeur d'Alene, letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press editor. More here.

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