The city council of Kanab, Utah, has unanimously endorsed a non-binding "Natural Family Resolution" that promotes the claustrophobic values of '50s America. You know, that nice women-belong-in-the-kitchen morality that had grown across the nation like kudzu on a railway trestle, smothering everything underneath, and which was soon to be sprayed with a liberal dose of '60s-era Weed-B-Gone. Everywhere but rural Utah, that is. Yeah.
Here's the Salt Lake Tribune:
Carol Sullivan voted for the resolution - pitched by the conservative Sutherland Institute - last week when it was introduced by Mayor Kim Lawson. But the council's sole woman did so with some reservations.But gee, Councilperson Sullivan, if you wondered why it should be a government issue ... fer flip's sake why did you vote for it, non-binding or not? Omiheck."I saw no reason to vote against it because it is nonbinding," she said, noting that no one spoke out against it. "But I did wonder why it should be a government issue."
Sullivan also sees some of the resolution's language as "chauvinistic."
"It kind of made me feel like the odd one out ... the square peg in a round hole. But that's how it is when you're the only woman on an all-male council." [full article]
One wonders how the Bionic Boy (1976, made-for-TV, filmed near Kanab) would have fit into a "natural" Kanab family.
