{"id":2443,"date":"2012-09-19T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/why-do-liberals-love-censorship.html"},"modified":"2012-09-19T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:05:00","slug":"why-do-liberals-love-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/why-do-liberals-love-censorship.html","title":{"rendered":"Why do liberals love censorship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/chick-fil-caves-to-leftist-censorship.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Because it works<\/a>. \u00a0As we are seeing once again. \u00a0The big break away for the Chick fil A\u00a0controversy\u00a0was that it was elected\u00a0government\u00a0officials using the power of their\u00a0government\u00a0offices to banish a company based on the free speech of its top official. \u00a0Sort of like those old time puritans whipping a Quaker out of town on a cart, these liberals (and boy do I use that term loosely) are invoking the same inquisitorial Orwellian censorship. \u00a0Why? Because they can. \u00a0Because America, like so much of the world, has tried freedom and liberty and found them wanting. \u00a0Now, as liberalism has firm\u00a0control\u00a0over the venues of information in our culture, it\u2019s only a matter of time before rejecting leftist dogmas will get you all the tolerance as supporting the Soviet Communists did back in the 1950s. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it works. \u00a0As we are seeing once again. \u00a0The big break away for the Chick fil A\u00a0controversy\u00a0was that it was elected\u00a0government\u00a0officials using the power of their\u00a0government\u00a0offices to banish a company based on the free speech of its top official. \u00a0Sort of like those old time puritans whipping a Quaker out of town on a 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