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.
"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]
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.
One wonders how the Bionic Boy (1976, made-for-TV, filmed near Kanab) would have fit into a "natural" Kanab family.
