U.S. Christian magazine comments on HRCs

Here's a story from a U.S.-based Christian magazine about Canada's "human rights" censorship. It's amazing -- and encouraging -- to me that so many Americans care about freedom of speech up here. It's partly self-interest -- what happens in Canada today may well happen in the U.S. in five years. But I think it also speaks to the best of Americans' instincts -- their love for freedom, their desire to help people around the world, and their unfortunately accurate belief that, if they don't care about a problem in the world, chances are nobody else will.

An excerpt:

In general, political correctness in the USA is not a government concern (our Human Rights Commissions don't concern themselves—yet—with hate speech), but Christians on secular college campuses and conservatives in Hollywood know the limits on what they can say and do. A particularly ugly example is the outrage against supporters of Proposition 8 (upholding traditional marriage) in California. To cite just two examples: Scott Eckern, Artistic Director of the Sacramento Music Theater, and Richard Raddon, director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, both were forced to resign their positions after being "outed" as contributors to the cause. Many others were harassed, heckled, and threatened.

But Americans don't support this kind of intimidation. Standing one's ground at the right time can help turn the tide, as Ezra Levant and others have shown up north. The battle is far from over, but strategic positions can still be won, and glacial progress is better than none.