(Photo credit: Getty Images. People from the Walt Disney Company participate in an LA Pride Parade in West Hollywood, California)

My friend’s son has a peanut allergy.  She doesn’t want him to die so she keeps a peanut free home and carries with her, at all times, an EpiPen in order to administer lifesaving treatment should he require it.   There is nothing surprising about any of this.  Indeed, it would be surprising if I reported that my friend, whose son had such an allergy, regularly filled the house with peanuts and had no way of rescuing him in the event of an attack.