re: Proud of Garrett Temple

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Free to who, the folks you deem as acceptable

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The motto of the progressive left for decades. Don't actively support homosexual lifestyles? You must be silenced, vilified and eradicated as unacceptable. Don't go out of your way to espouse every conceivable environmental alarmist proclamation? You must be silenced, vilified and eradicated as unacceptable. Don't eagerly embrace the notion that everyone deserves to have every whim met by the state at taxpayer expense? You must be silenced, vilified and eradicated as unacceptable.

It is galling how many times we have to listen to the people clamoring for tolerance, acceptance, and respect for all points of view telling everyone who disagrees with them to shut up under threat of hate crime prosecution. When are we going to hear a liberal stand up with a national audience and demand that we as a nation show respect for diversity and all points of view and give this same degree of love and tolerance to, say, the Tea Party?

It's easy to be passionate about someone's freedom of speech when you agree with them. It's when they don't agree with you that is the real test. And your reaction to the people who disagreed with you is pretty much exactly the same as their reaction was to Jason Collins. Pot, meet kettle.