Well stated. Self-censorship is the worst censorship of all. Anyone who thinks that feeding Akin to the Dem beast will solve our problems is in for a rude awakening. It only whets their appetite.
For the Left history is teleological (why that should be so in a meaningless universe in which the earth is an insignificant speck is never explained). History, like water, flows one way: leftward. With every new leftist victory restoration of the previous status quo becomes "unthinkable." Right now the restoration of pre-R.v.Wade America is "unthinkable." If "gay marriage" is ever created, then doing away with it will likewise be as "unthinkable" as restoring slavery. In fact, free speech doesn't even exist in the abstract for these people. "Free speech" is merely a tool to enable the Left to "push the envelope" ever and ever leftward. No such freedom exists for anyone to want to "turn back the clock."
When are we going to catch on?
Never mind that these same "progressives" ooh and aah over "indigenous pipples" who believe in spirits, mutilate their females, and stone homosexuals. They're "different." They're "authentic." Just like it's okay for them to hunt and kill animals for food, because they're part of the "great circle of life." Only Clem and Billy Bob are evil when they hunt (or have sexual taboos).
And as I said before, the "theocratic" nature of regimes like Qaddafi's Libya and Iran since '79 doesn't bother them at all.