The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Free Speech & Higher Education.

     How far have we fallen as a society where being a porn star is worthy of praise while simply stating that sex should be reserved for marriage is subject to discrimination.  Mike Gonzalez, over at National Review Online, points out that this is sadly reality:

“The GSC [(StanfordGraduate Student Council)] last week voted to deny funding for an event organized by the Stanford Anscombe Society, a group that believes that sexual relations should be only within marriage, which they define as being between a man and a woman. The university itself told the Anscombe Society it could find the money elsewhere (how generous), after students raised objections that labeled the society’s work “hate speech.”

“So the Anscombe Society raised the money themselves from other sources and when they found the money this week, the university upped the ante, saying they’d have to pay an extra $5,600 for “security” — ten security personnel at a conference with an expected attendance of 120. The security was only deemed necessary after students at Stanford argued they felt threatened by the idea of the conference.”

     But then, according to the rabid Left, only speech they agree with is considered “free speech” while everything else is declared “H8” or “incorrect,” and is thus not protected.

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