Just before Halloween last year, the Children’s Zoo of Lincoln, Nebraska — a city-owned function — informed a local restaurant and its church partner that the zoo did not want them to include a Noah’s Ark verse as part of its handout at the annual trick-or-treat program at the zoo. The reason given by zoo officials was that such materials would violate its cultural diversity policy. So, in the name of promoting cultural diversity, a religious organization would not be permitted to express its views! Now you know why it’s called a “zoo.”
I wonder if any objection would have been raised had a group calling itself the “Druid Brotherhood” — or, better yet, the “Druid Sisterhood” — sought to hand out literature relating to its views? I strongly suspect that no concern would have been expressed had members of that most vocal and coercive religion — i.e., Environmentalism — asked to hand out its religious tracts that condemn people for the sin of being human!
