Ethics

Why Is This the Government's Business?

By Ed Brayton

Why does the government have any say at all in what kind of name someone can choose for themselves, especially if they're going to reject names on religious grounds?

Meet Kyle Joseph Campbell. Just call him Original Kreeam Shabazz.

Campbell of Mariners Harbor recently tried for a second time to change his name legally, a year after his first choice, Black Cream Allah, was denied by a judge on the grounds it resembled a rap song title and was sacrilegious.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).