When Marriage Became a ‘Hate Crime’

By csw, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 08:31:42 PM EST

"Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values." In Oakland, California that sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime.


By: George F. Will

That city's government says those words italicized here constitute something akin to hate speech, and can be proscribed from the government's open e-mail system and employee bulletin board.

Effectively, the city has proscribed any speech that even one person might say questioned the gay rights agenda and therefore created what that person felt was a "hostile environment." This, even though gay rights advocates used the city's communication system to advertise "Happy Coming Out Day." Yet the terms "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" are considered intolerably inflammatory.

Read the whole article at Jewish World Review


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