The readers respond to Bouchard's position on the MCRI issue

I completely agree with the following comments by reader Greg Brodeur on the issue raised by Michael Bouchard:

"As a long-time Republican, I find Bouchard's and other Republicans failure to support MCRI cowardly, hypocritical or just plain fooish. In the first place, we don't know what the effect of this will be on single sex schools since there aren't any such schools and the courts haven't ruled on this yet. Much more inportant however is how shockingly low the Republican price is to throw us all under the bus on this issue.

Consider the possiblity that 40 years ago, instead of going down this horrible and divisive road of race and sex preference, the courts had interpreted and enforced Constitutional provision against discrimination. That is, if today we were not hiring based on either race or sex, would Bouchard, or DeVos or other Republican leaders trade this all for single-sex schools? Would they really say, "Yes, if you will give us the unproven social benefit of a handful of single-sex schools, it will be OK to start dividing people by race and sex and also doling out jobs, college entrance and government contracts on this basis?"

If so, they're foolish. If not, as I said, cowardly and hypocritical.

I expect this sort of thing from the Democrats -- they're very up front about it. I expected better from the Republicans. Maybe that makes me the foolish one.