John
Burton is being sued for sexual harassment. As I have suggested in an
earlier blog, the facts I know suggest that John is not guilty.
However
there is an element of true primordial justice in this case. I
personally consider the sexual harassment laws and the court cases
surrounding them to be over-reaching and harmful to respectable social
interaction in the work place. They have virtually eliminated a wide
range of playfulness, joking, joie de vivre and camaraderie and put
woman at a great disadvantage for advancement. Men are forced out of schooling and all professional relations with children as well as many professional relations with women.
John is being
sued for sexual harassment under the very laws that took shape while he
was a Congressman from 1974 to 1982. Hoisted on his own petard.
Punished with his own legislation.