Food for thought
9 years ago
General
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe. – Frederic Bastiat
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To the author:
Welcome to the dark side. We have cookies. I know people on our team sometimes voice opinions you disagree with. I don't always like everyone on my side of the aisle either, there's a lot of a-holes that are ostensibly on my side, but when you get down to it, the smallest minority is the individual. If the individual is protected, all are protected. If only certain classes are protected, all others are fair game.
That's the great secret of why we're always talking about the Bill of Rights, and why silencing a person's freedom of speech in the name of, say, hate crimes laws last year, or safe spaces this year is such a bad thing. People have the right to be wrong, and if that ever changes, not only is freedom a thing of the past, but it's only a matter of time until whoever's in charge of deciding what's wrong decides that they don't like something that matters to you. The whims of ruling elites have, historically, been very fickle things.
As the old saying goes, "none of us are free if one of us is chained", and as a Christian - welcome to the fight. I'll be happy to stand up for your liberty if you stand up for mine. In times like these, with the threat of radical Islamic violence hanging over our heads, and with a creeping tyranny slowly strangling our system, the cause of freedom needs every ally it can get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge9pHidD8sc
Then this happened: (worthy of a platinum medal in mental gymnastics)
http://www.advocate.com/youth/2016/.....na-pulse-vigil
Check out the back and forth dialogue in the comments section.