The liberty
principle for this Freedom Friday is the importance of preserving our freedom
to speak about traditional marriage. The
debate about marriage is far from over even though five Justices on the United
States Supreme Court decided to trample on the Constitution and fundamentally
change the meaning of marriage. By a
very narrow margin the Justices moved the United States into the same position
as Canada; they are the only two nations in the entire world to force same-sex
marriage on their citizens.
Tony Perkins published an essay at the Daily Signal sharing his opinion that the Court’s ruling ended “the liberal media’s
charade. Whatever scrap of journalistic
impartiality existed flew out the courtroom window Friday when the press
decided five justices not only invented a right to same-sex marriage but to
censorship, too. The press is no longer a guardian against censorship but a portender of
it.”
Members of the lame stream press
are celebrating the Court’s decision because it tried for years to stop the
debate about same-sex marriage. “Desperate
to take away the voice of Christians at the public table, the left is already
on the march to undermine the very freedom that gives breath to the speech it
now enjoys…. [M]uch of the media have declared victory over a dispute that’s
barely existed two decades. Americans
who believe in thousands of years of human history must now surrender to a
4-day-old `right’ – or shut up altogether.”
Perkins gave as an example a newspaper
in Pennsylvania declared that they would “no longer accept, nor … print, op-eds
and letters to the editor in opposition to same-sex marriage…. This is not hard: We would not print racist, sexist or
anti-Semitic letters. To that, we add
homophobic ones. Pretty simple.”
This type of conversation is
happening at many media places; unfortunately for them, this is the one that
went public. “People were outraged and
flooded the newspaper with scathing emails and phone calls. Within hours, the editors issued an
apology. It was, John Micek, said, a
`genuine attempt at fostering civil discussion.’ (Not very genuine, it seems, since ending the
discussion doesn’t exactly foster one.)
Still, Micek said, `These pages … belong to the people of Central
Pennsylvania. I’m a conduit, I
recognize, for them to share their views and to have the arguments that make us
better as a people. And all views are –
and always will be – welcome.’ For how
long, no one knows.”
Editors at The Daily Beast are
calling the four conservative Justices’ votes “treason.” Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family
Research Council, appeared on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos to
discuss the marriage decision, and “left-wing groups mobilized thousands of
people to contact the network, demanding it ban him from future shows. It’s a deliberate attempt to silence your
voice, which we represent in Washington.”
Reverend Franklin Graham said, “You
better be ready and you better be prepared because it’s coming…. There will be persecution of Christians for
our stand.”
The media has constantly told
Americans that support for same-sex marriage was strong. They apparently said it often enough that
they actually believe it. When millions
of Americans push back on the effort to silence them, the media will be
shocked. The Family Research Council
launched a new movement called Project Tolerance: Preserving Your Voice in the Public
Square. You can join the pushback at this site. I encourage you to go there and become an ambassador
for preserving freedom to speak about marriage.
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