I have been reading about the treatment of Carrie Prejean by the media and her sponsors from the Miss California contest. They are not trying to show that her ideas are wrong. They are trying to destroy her reputation forever. This is getting out of hand. She said nothing offensive to anyone. Anyone who took offense from what she said needs to get a life.

The first step in destroying Carrie Prejean was Perez Hilton creating a video and calling her lots of names and saying her answer was the worst in pageant history. Perez wanted controversy. The only way Carrie could have answered that question to Perez Hilton’s satisfaction was if she wholeheartedly endorsed gay marriage and completely rejected straight marriage. That was never going to happen, given Carrie’s background. So, she was set up for this one.

The second step was for her Miss California leaders to say that her answer was her own and not the answer of the Miss California Pageant. They made a big point to insure that she was on her own. Her answer was almost exactly the same as Barack Obama made during the campaign for the Presidency. Her answer was entirely within the main stream of American thought. Her answer was entirely within the main stream of California thought. They voted in November and 53% supported Carrie’s position. I am not sure what the organizers expected her to say, but what she said was what more than half of any group of Americans would have said, anywhere.

After the first salvo did not work, they resorted to releasing some photos of Carrie when she was a teenager. She does not have a top on, but she has her arm over her breasts and they are turned away from the camera. As I heard one commentator say, she probably showed more skin in the swimsuit competition than in the photo. The people out to destroy Carrie are calling the photos topless and nude. Some of them even say they are pornographic. There is nothing to see in the photos that you cannot see on any beach or swimming pool deck in America.

Now, they say that she may have broken some Pageant rules and may be stripped of the Miss California crown. They are just looking for something to hang their hat on. They knew of these photos before the contest, because they released them shortly thereafter. The Miss California Pageant organizers will find some reason to strip her of the crown. The reason is that they want to strip her of the crown to show her and anyone like her that you cannot win a beauty pageant without toeing the gay agenda party line. If you so much as think thoughts that do not conform to the gay agenda, you have no chance to win a beauty pageant in the United States today. This is chilling stuff.

Have we sunk so far that we cannot speak freely any longer? What has happened to free speech? Is free speech now defined as only speech you agree with and all other speech is banned? That seems to be the rule for the people pushing the gay agenda. According to them, if you want the right of free speech, you have to conform to their position. Then, you can say anything you want as long as it conforms. If it strays from the gay agenda, then your right to free speech ends.

We are seeing some of that coming from the government in the push to regulate talk radio. First, they were talking about putting the Fairness Doctrine back in place. After talk radio worked on that one for a while, the idea of putting the Fairness Doctrine back in place is gone. But, the idea of regulating talk radio is not gone. The left is just trying to figure out a different way of doing it. There are a lot of options. They could make the radio license be renewed more often. That would give them a chance to work on the owners. This idea is not real good, unless mixed with another idea. They could make local review boards to decide if a radio station is putting on enough local issues. This would do it, especially if mixed with a more frequent license renewal. It would be difficult to sneak this one by the talk radio personalities without some reaction from them and their fans.

If the left succeeds in regulating talk radio and the internet, then they will insure that only left leaning candidates will be elected. Conservatives need not apply for office in that America. We would have succeeded in becoming a Fascist State. Whether we were a Fascist Republic or a Fascist Dictatorship would not matter very much as the Fascist part is the dominant part. The earmarks are there that says we are on the path to become a Fascist State. The left tolerates no speech except for their own is the biggest sign. The left is in control in Washington at a level I have never seen in my lifetime. They could push through the laws that make us a Fascist State, if they so choose. There wouldn’t be anyone to stop them. The problem would be if the military would support them in this effort. If the military said they would not support a Fascist America, then the entire house of cards, built by the Democrats, would crumble.

“When the left enters, diversity of thought goes.” That statement by Dennis Prager, just as I was getting out of my car to go to work was profound. He had been leading up to that statement by saying that the right considers the left wrong and the left considers the right evil. He had been giving numerous examples of left leaning people that would not give the time of day to a person who expressed an opinion from the right. Dennis said that this problem had been occurring since Karl Marx. Also, all fascist states, from the Nazi's to the communists, have been from the left.

What brought this all on was the Miss USA beauty contest. Miss California had answered a question about Vermont granting gay marriage and what did she think the rest of the states should do. Miss California said that she was glad she lived in a country where people could choose both. She then elaborated more on that thought and closed with the fact that in her family she was brought up that marriage was between a man and a woman. She closed that she did not want to give offense to anyone. Perez Hilton, one of the judges, went ballistic, called her nasty names and called her intelligence into question on U-Tube. Yesterday, one of the co-chairs of the Miss USA Pageant went on CBS and basically said that if you do not have leftist views, you cannot win a beauty contest. She said that Miss California had not been compassionate in her answer. In my mind, I could not think of a more compassionate and inclusive answer to the question. I would have been much blunter.

At almost all colleges and universities, you have to hold leftist opinions to be hired. If you have ever put forth a conservative opinion in public, you have little chance of being hired as a full-time faculty member. If you manage to get past the hiring committee and they find out that you have conservative views, you have little chance of being promoted to full professor. The quality of your scholarship is not important. Your ability to teach is not important. If you hold conservative ideas, you have little chance to get past the leftist gatekeepers. When conservatives ran the colleges and universities there were many liberals and Marxists that taught at the schools and attained full professorship. Today, that cannot be said of conservatives in a liberal environment. You will find exceptions, but the general rule is that conservatives need not apply.

At the major newspapers and television stations, conservatives need not apply. The television stations are finding that they need some conservative hosts, so will hire some selected conservatives. But, the general rule is that they only hire liberals. As a result, you get this liberal bias. The TV stations and newspapers cannot see the liberal bias because all the people they hang around with are liberals. Since all their liberal friends hold exactly the same opinions that they do, they see absolutely no problem with reporting news with a liberal slant. They just figure that the liberal position is the normal position for everyone in the US. When they are confronted with the liberal bias claim, they are dumfounded. They cannot possibly have a liberal bias in their news reporting. Yet, you see it time and again. In the interview with the co-chair of the Miss USA Pageant, the reporter just took what the co-chair said with no questions being raised in her mind. If she had no bias, she could have asked the co-chair to give an example of how Miss California could have answered the question more compassionately. That would have put the co-chair on the spot to put up or shut up. If she could not give an example, then she would have been exposed as a fascist. If she could give an example, then she would have vindicated Miss California. Also, the reporter could have asked the co-chair what the difference was between the answer Miss California gave and the answer Barack Obama gave during the campaign. He said that he believed that marriage was between a man and a woman. He did not even acknowledge that gays had any right to marriage. Miss California did make that acknowledgement. That also would have put the co-chair on the spot.

Liberals are dominating the American scene more and more throughout my lifetime. As a result, conservative ideas are disparaged more and more. About the only bastion of conservative thought is talk radio and part of the internet. Congress is getting ready to fix that problem as soon as they can think of a way around the Republicans. Then, they will shut down talk radio and all conservative thought on the internet. We have to hope that the Republicans, as weak as they are, can hold on until the elections in 2010. Then, we have a chance to fix part of the problem we created in 2008.

Listening to the Dennis Prager show, I heard something quite disturbing. He was telling us about the beauty pageant that was held over the weekend. Miss California was given a question from one of the judges. The question was approximately, New Hampshire recently approved gay marriages. Should other states follow their example? Miss California said approximately, that she was glad she lived in a country where people could believe what they wanted to. But, that she and her family believed that marriage is between one man and one woman. Miss California came in first runner-up in the event.

One of the judges was outraged. After the event, he made a U-Tube video where he called her stupid and other names for not saying that gay marriage was a good thing. This judge said that if Miss California had won he would have gone on stage and caused a scene.

That is really disturbing to me. Things are starting to get out of hand where people that believe in gay marriage are concerned. Those of us who believe in traditional marriage are now not just wrong; we are stupid and a lot of other unprintable names. The next thing you know, we will not be able to voice our opinions at all. The left believes it knows more than all of recorded history and every religious and secular leader throughout time. That is really scary. When something has worked well for thousands of years, why change it?

The real thrust behind all this gay marriage talk where anyone who disagrees with gay marriage is now not just wrong but stupid and worse, is that the left wants to control the agenda. The way they control the agenda is to intimidate everyone into keeping silent. If they keep calling everyone bad names for supporting tradition, then people will start keeping quiet. That is how they imposed political correctness and other leftist changes in the language. Now words do not even mean what they have meant for hundreds of years.

What is happening right before our eyes is that our free speech is being taken away from us. It started with political correctness. We let that go because it seemed harmless at first. Now the left has gone beyond political correctness into changing the thoughts of everyone. If they cannot win the discussion of ideas, they will win with intimidation. They will bully everyone into believing, or at least saying, what they want them to say. When they achieve that goal, then there will not be anyone to stop them from completely dominating the culture. They almost do so now, so this last step will just complete the process.

Those of us who believe in truth and right need to speak out and say that we will not be intimidated. I will not stop saying that I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. Marriage is not between two people of the same sex. The reason behind marriage is to have and raise children. Two people of the same sex cannot have children through natural means. They are incapable of doing what the purpose of marriage is, so they fall outside the definition of marriage. If you want to call their unions something else, then that is fine. But, they are not marriage and never will be marriage, no matter how much the left cries that they are.

We need to take a stand here and now. Our rights are being trampled by the left. They believe that they know more than the combined world. They want to impose their failed doctrines on the American people. If we do not take a stand now, we will lose our freedoms and America will be a historical country. We cannot let that happen. The Tea Parties were a first step, but we need to continue. Stand up and be counted. Do not let yourself be intimidated by the left. You will end up stronger, though you may catch a few arrows.