Hard to interpret this news any other way, is it?
CANADIAN FREE SPEECH: Let me add my two cents of outrage to the way in which homophobes in Canada are denied freedom of speech. It’s horrifying. I’ve long believed and argued that the central aim of the gay rights movement should be to expand freedom – for everyone. Speech codes and “hate crime” laws restrict freedom – and gays should have nothing to do with them. We should be defending the right of the Boy Scouts to discriminate if they so wish, while making the argument that they shouldn’t. We should be defending the right of bigots to exclude gays from their St Patrick’s Day parade if they so wish – because their freedoms are our freedoms also. This is particularly true in First Amendment matters. For centuries, free speech was the only real freedom gays ever had. The idea that we should now be curtailing it for others – whatever their views – is a betrayal of our past, our integrity and our freedom.
EUROPE AND THE JEWS: A horrifying first-person account of anti-American and anti-Semitic vitriol in London.
BUSH AS A LIBERAL: Sky-high spending at home, utopian interventionism abroad. Paul Campos makes the case.
DIVORCE IS NEXT: Kudos for one evangelical for conceding that the battle to keep civil marriage an exclusively heterosexual privilege in the name of traditional values is hard to sustain given the high rate of straight divorce. So … tighten up divorce! Why not combine state constitutional amendments “defending” marriage with bans on no-fault divorce? Well, you know the answer.
The Dish 