There is something that Corey Jones, a first-base umpire working high school games in New Mexico, has in common with Ben Carson, conservative star, surgeon and head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.

They both violated the New Order in their respective commnunities, one being the high school baseball diamond, the other being academia. They are both being subjected to "re-education" in the public square.

What did they do? Carson, it is well known, declared his opposition to marriage for homosexuals. This violation of New Normal led Carson to withdraw as Johns Hopkins' commencement speaker. Like that poor canary-bird in the coal mine, Carson's experience provides solid evidence there is no "oxygen" in society at large for voicing the age-old convention that marriage is a heterosexual institution for one man and one woman, and no other pairings or groupings.

Corey Jones also gave voice to a convention that is no longer supported by society -- that educators, coaches, and other leaders of the young expect Americans to speak English in public life not only as a means of communicating in our native tongue, but also as a means of becoming American.

Unable to tell whether players were swearing or razzing opponents, Corey Jones told the first baseman for Gadsden High School, which is 97 percent Hispanic, to stop speaking Spanish during a game. When Gadsden's assistant coach, Emmanuel Burciaga, came out to complain, Jones told the coach anyone speaking Spanish on the diamond, coaches, too, would be ejected from the game. Burciaga says he told the ump, "Our players will not stop speaking Spanish and they will not be ejected from the game." Burciaga says Jones then told him, "Another word from you, Coach, and you will be ejected." The bi-lingual home-plate umpire became involved, advising that he would monitor any unsportsmanlike Spanish coming from the players.   

Gadsden Independent Schools have now filed a complaint against Jones.

"I'm not trying to get (Jones) fired, Burciaga said. "I'm trying to educate the person."

Uh-huh.