considering anyone who advances ideals about homosexuality with which you happen to disagree a hate group<\/a>?\u00a0 The tiresome, yet effective, tendency of the Left to declare evil anyone who fails to conform to liberal groupthink is becoming troubling at best.\u00a0 Simply because many on the Left desire to put teeth in their proclamation of moral superiority, one has to oppose their efforts almost on the principle of freedom of conscience and speech.\u00a0 Even if you agree with their stances on such issues as homosexuality, anyone with a shred of consistency must be compelled to stand up and say enough, people can actually be free to reject liberalism and not have the label \u2018hate group\u2019 hung around their necks.\u00a0 After all, this is not yet the United Soviets of America.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by me.\u00a0 After all, what is closer to genuine\u00a0hate?\u00a0 Holding an opinion about homosexuality that fails to conform to the dogmas of modern progressivism?\u00a0 Or considering anyone who advances ideals about homosexuality with which you happen to disagree a hate group?\u00a0 The tiresome, yet effective, tendency of the Left to declare evil anyone who fails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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