This is Piers Morgan's entry into the Phil Robertson kerfuffle.
I like it, because it gets so much wrong about our Constitution, describes Liberalism to a tee, and even brings some clarity to those who may wonder why 2nd Amendment defenders are so serious about that one.
What Morgan and Liberals in general fail to understand is that the First Amendment exists specifically to protect vile speech, and the "bigots" (with "bigot" being a term wholly defined by the user) who utter it. Yes, the Founders were primarily concerned with political speech, but, this protection extended to anyone, saying essentially anything.
You can see the problem for the mythical Everyman here - if we don't have such protections, then WHO will be the arbiter of speech? WHO will define what's vile? WHO will point to the bigots?
Leftists are none to happy to stand up and say, gleefully, "We will!!!!!"
And that's the problem, and that's why we have a First Amendment, and that's also why the Founders gave us the Second Amendment. Because they had lived through a world where their weapons were threatened, and they lived at a time when the only thing standing between them and an oppressive government were their rifles. So, the Second Amendment should, and does, protect assault rifle devotees. The Left has had far more success in limiting that Amendment, but those who defend it are doing God's work just as much as those who defend the First.
To my left-leaning friends - if you don't like the Constitution, the Founders gave us a process to change it. Instead of judge shopping, or electing presidents willing to ignore it, try to change it. If your ideas are so damn great, can't you convince people on the merits?
BTW - this is my first post using ifttt.com to simultaneously post to Facebook an Twitter. Let's see how it works...
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