Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 1, 2012

All human beings who enjoy a measure of personal liberty practice discrimination. Each of us makes choices in social, economic, political, and religious associations that involve including some and excluding others. Inasmuch as we do so without violating the property rights of others through force or fraud, no government has any role in scrutinizing them, much less micro-managing them and punishing those who make choices that some people find objectionable.

In the name of officially mandated ?tolerance,? however, the government ruling us has created a system in which all of our commercial enterprises and private associations are quietly monitored for evidence of politically unacceptable opinions regarding race, ?gender,? and what is called ?sexual orientation.?

As the leftist jihad against the Chick fil-A restaurant chain illustrates, those who offer evidence of such proscribed views can find themselves subject to punitive sanctions of various kinds. In this case, the supposed offense committed by the chain?s president consisted of expressing opposition to so-called same-sex marriage in exactly the same terms used by then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008.

The regulation of attitudes and associations in the name of ?tolerance? is a form of soft totalitarianism ? albeit one that can harden into undisguised tyranny very quickly.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.