As yesterday’s vote in the House showed, Minnesotans don’t tolerate putting civil rights through popularity contests. <\/p>\n
The message was loud and clear – if you oppose civil liberty (even for something that’s not a civil liberty, but a private contract that society has over the years turned into an entitlement), you are a bigot, and will be called a bigot until you shut up and go away. <\/p>\n
Excellent!<\/p>\n
Now that all you newly-minted libertarian absolutists have won your battle, you’ll need something to occupy all that energy; you’ll need new targets for they keen-eyed intellectual nimbleness you’ve developed over the past 18 months of shouting over your opponents that they are bigots. <\/p>\n
There is a small minority of Minnesotans who, operating from a racist, sexist, paternalistic, authoritarian notion of the social order, have been working to systematically working to deny Minnesotans of a vital civil right that is not only enshrined in the constitution but one that we were all born with an instinct to practice, one every bit as powerful as the instinct to procreate, and much stronger than the urge to mate – self-defense. <\/p>\n
These bigots – whose intellectual lineage traces back to the slave-owners’ desire to neutralize his property – want to force you to deny how you’re born. <\/p>\n
So I urge you to join my new group, “Minnesotans United For All Liberties”, and help drive bigotry from our state. <\/p>\n
Will you join? <\/p>\n
Or are you a bigot?<\/p>\n
(Written with a nod to Dave Thul, whose wisecrack sent me off to write this…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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