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  • When marriage became a ‘hate crime’

    06/25/2007 5:16:31 AM PDT · by rhema · 19 replies · 1,147+ views
    Jewish World Review ^ | June 25, 2007 | George Will
    Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime. At least it is in Oakland, Calif. 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. When the McCain-Feingold law empowered government to regulate the quantity, content and timing of political campaign speech about government, it was predictable that the right of free speech would increasingly be sacrificed to various social objectives that free speech supposedly impedes. And it was...