Free Speech, R.I.P.

Free Speech, R.I.P.

There have always been accepted limitations on the First Amendment guaranty of freedom of speech.

Americans are reasonably restricted from blaring, “Fire!” in any crowded building when there is no fire. We are understandably refused permission to exercise free speech when that speech is designed to incite insurrection and sedition, although various courts have unfortunately loosened that prohibition.

The right to free speech and the untrammeled exercise thereof are the cornerstones of our Republic, cornerstones we ignore at great peril to the Constitution and to what we are as Americans.

However, we’re now witnessing not a whittling away of that most fundamental right but a wholesale dismantling being conducted in the interests not of society as a whole but at the insistence of what has become an extremely powerful, minority interest group: the homosexual lobby.

Nowhere is the power of that group more evident than in the state with one of the richest heritages of patriotism which has become a cesspool of liberalism and, now, denial of First Amendment privileges, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The former land of Patrick Henry, John Hancock, the Boston Tea Party, and “the shot heard ’round the world” . . .
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