For many years, I have been fond of a quote by Scottish novelist, George MacDonald. MacDonald said, “When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”
I liked to believe that this quote would appeal to Utahns, a notoriously family-friendly group of people, but I don’t believe this any more. Let me tell you why.
Just the other day, the president of the United States of America, a vitriolic man by all accounts, mocked a 16-year-old girl with Asperger syndrome, OCD and selective mutism for giving one of the most powerful and sobering speeches ever delivered at the United Nations.