This incident gives you a new slogan for your airline:
Southwest: The Airline of the American Taliban.
You are neither arbiters of taste, nor morality. You are not a church. You are an airline.
What this incident has done is to emphasize the rift in American society that is caused by those who would return to America's puritanical roots and impose their beliefs and behaviors on everyone else, and those who actually live and espouse the founding values of this great nation as expressed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
We send our young men and women to die overseas so that people there can (supposedly) have some choice in the way they live and express their beliefs. There is no place here for those who would impose their own versions of morality on the rest of us. Your flight attendant is no better than those we are fighting in the middle east. For shame.
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