Is it that liberals don't understand that implied by the idea of free speech is the potentiality to offend and therefore speech that is not allowed to offend is not actually free - or is it that the modern liberal no longer believes in free speech because it no longer serves their agenda? Since the former is a pretty easy concept to understand it must be the latter - which is why the modern progressive is truly a dangerous animal. If moderate, saner liberals do not start pushing back in a determined way against these zealots it will break the country apart because separation will be the only way for conservative states to protect themselves against the predations of a progressively addled executive. The beginning of the end will be when liberals try to truncate religious freedoms by forcing those who do not believe in gay marriage to perform gay marriages in their church - then conservative states will have to respond, probably by taking government out of the marriage business altogether - indeed, I've been arguing for awhile that the coming of gay marriage pushes the redefinition of marriage begun by the pill and women entering the workforce en masse to such a degree away from a family paradigm based on procreation that it no longer makes sense for government to involve itself in marriage - if marriage is now primarily about 'love' and not the making of babies, then what business is it to the government whom I choose to love and how I choose to express that love?
