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Just thought I\u2019d post a reminder of the bleeding obvious<\/a>. \u00a0Of course some argue \u2018it\u2019s not the government, it\u2019s not censorship.\u2019 \u00a0Even though when I was in college I was told that it didn\u2019t have to be government to be censorship. \u00a0In fact, those old time liberal professors I had made a compelling case. \u00a0If you get society to accept crushing the rights of speech outside of the political sphere, then it\u2019s only a small step to make it official. \u00a0Once the government is doing it, you\u2019ve already won the hearts and minds of the people to make it possible. So we have gay marriage, not about marriage equality at all (which is as much a B.S. phrase as I\u2019ve ever heard), but really about training Americans to accept the idea that traditional religious (read: Christian) values should no longer have a place in our culture. \u00a0Given the polls, it looks like a growing number of Americans are warming up to the call. <\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0Just like that little gallimimus in Jurassic Park<\/i> that frantically and hopelessly snarls back at the T-Rex about to devour it, some are trying to find ways to keep Gay Rights from becoming the tool with which the Progressive Left can finally and legally crush the Rights to not be Liberal<\/a>. \u00a0As the article says, most initiatives have withered under the screams of a media-orchestrated outcry. \u00a0Who was it that said witch hunts and McCarthy and the Inquisition and Fascists were always warned against by our educational, media and cultural institutions, but not it\u2019s those very institutions behind the modern witch hunts? \u00a0Oh, that\u2019s be me. \u00a0But I\u2019m afraid, too little, too late.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"