Tyranny of the minority?

A lawsuit was filed yesterday challenging the constitutionality of state question 751. That's the one that requires all official state communications to be in English or Native American languages. A local attorney filed the suit on behalf of Delilah Gentges, a local resident. A previous action to prevent the state question, as well as SQ 751, from being on the November second ballot at all, failed. Gentges was a plaintiff in that action as well.

Normalcy seems to be under attack in today's society. We speak English in the United States. We do so exclusively because that's what is taught in our homes and our schools. Its not done that way with malicious intent. Its tradition and its practical. One common language is universally understandable. Public discourse is accurately communicated.

When I lived in Houston, Texas, I was taught rudimentary Spanish starting in the fourth grade. That was a voluntary act on the part of the school district. There was a significant Spanish speaking population close to our city, Mexico. Mexico had not yet come to America, but we might want to visit there some day. When my family moved to Ohio, the Spanish stopped. Why? It wasn't needed. Our closest "foreign" neighbor was Canada. There is no official language called "Canadian" so no need to teach it, though I still don't understand what a "hoser" is.

There is a difference between personal initiative in learning a language, organizational initiative in teaching students a skill they "might" need later in life, and a mandate or requirement that mandates multiple languages. Simply put, its the free market. If a language variant is needed and beneficial, the free market will come up with a way to handle that. The free market will also ignore a non English language if it chooses because in the free market majority rules.

The state question stated that English was mandated for all state communications was practical. The suit is not. Legal immagration demands the immigrant learn Endglish, at least conversationally. It also demands the immigrant learn our history. If the immigration process is followed, the individual will learn English.

The simply truth is the SQ 751 simply put in black and white a practical limitation on state publications that would both save money and require a part of the legal immigration process be observed. The idea received a 74% yes vote. How can those facts be ignored by the filing of a law suit on behalf of one person or even one class of people?