The liberals are always talking about free speech. They constantly say that they believe in the importance of all views being heard in the debate. They even came up with a slogan during the Bush years, “dissention is patriotic”. Now their views on free speech are being tested and they don’t like it very much.

What liberals mean by free speech is that all liberal views should be heard. No conservative should ever dare question any liberal position on anything. When liberals say that dissention is patriotic, they mean that dissention is patriotic when it is a liberal protesting against a conservative. That is the natural order of things, so of course it is patriotic. When a conservative questions a liberal the natural order of things has been upset and so it is not patrioti

Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer signed a statement the other day that basically said that there is no free speech for conservatives. Now, I am reading between the lines and making conclusions from their arguments, but I think that most liberals would agree with that assessment. If they were two people off of the street, it would be a dangerous document. But, because they are the top two Democrats in the House of Representatives it is radioactive in its impact. The White House and Barack Obama seem to agree with that sentiment as they continually talk about being attacked by right wingers.

Democrats from the House and Senate on recess are cancelling Townhall meetings at a record pace. They are being confronted at every event and always come off looking like the fools they are. I saw a You-Tube video of a man with a handicapped child in Michigan who confronted his Congressman. He was removed from the room for his efforts. There was a doctor in Atlanta, GA that was accused of being from outside the area and a Republican. Both charges were completely false. Democrats are hiding behind closed doors or accusing their constituents of being paid by the insurance companies. Their fear is showing. That is a good sign as it might tell them that this so-called healthcare bill is not something they want to support.

Hopefully Democrats are getting the message that people are upset. I know that around here people are upset enough to vote the person out of office in 2010, if they vote for the bill. To pass the bill, Nancy Pelosi needs almost all the Democrats to vote with her. She is unlikely to get any Republican votes. That makes the move a Democrat Albatross. If it is as bad as advertised, and it is most likely worse, Democrats will be on the outside of power rather quickly.

So far, the Democrat leadership has been completely tone deaf on this issue. They are determined to pass the bill, regardless of the lack of support. Some of their members have their ears to the ground and know that to vote for the bill is political suicide. The leadership will try to pay the members off with millions or even billions of our dollars to get them to agree to vote for this monster. That will just add a fiscal irresponsibility tag to the arrogant politician tag. Those tags will not fly very well in the 2010 and 2012 elections. People want fiscally responsible politicians in Washington and the Democrats have proven themselves unworthy of the public trust.

The Republicans have not taken the lead on the issue as of this date. They can take the lead, if they desire to. So far, all the Republican response has been fractured and disjointed. Of course, it has been filtered by the news media. An election cycle will take care of that problem. It is just that there is no unified voice of the party. That person needs to emerge, and quickly. Whoever takes the lead on this issue will be the next President in 2012. But, that window of opportunity is open only for a short time. If you don’t grab the bull by the horns now, it will take more work in 2012. Let’s hope that someone decides to get out in front and be willing to take the arrows. Arrows from Democrats may sound terrible, but are really nothing of consequence.

Yesterday, I heard some stirrings from Mitt Romney on the Hugh Hewitt show. The scenario is written as a perfect script for Romney. If he wrote up his dream scenario, this would be it. I am not sure why he has not jumped out in front and said here I am, follow me. If he says it now and provides real leadership, then the bigots will have no impact on his campaign.

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.