[Jim Noble]

If you cannot discriminate, you are not free.

[Ohioan]

I absolutely agree that the right to discriminate--that is simply the right to make your own choices in your own affairs, rather than be dictated to by a Governmental bureaucracy--is the very essence of freedom. The pity is that so many self-styled Conservatives, today, have been brainwashed to the point that they do not see the obvious. (For more on the subject, see "Civil Rights" vs. American Liberty.)

But the writer really undermines his libertarian position by applying the term "bigot" to those who are really only asking to be let alone; to have their own preferences, not the Government's preferences--or the preferences of some agitation group.

He also looks ridiculous when he states this belief: "gay marriage is as valid as straight marriage." Anyone with intelligence enough to grasp what marriage has been all about in civilized nations for thousands of years, that is sanctifying the family formation & the procreation of the next generation; ought certainly to understand that that belief is absolutely unsustainable in the realm of reason & logic.

I generally respect what the writer has had to say on a great many subjects. But whatever his personal bias; he needs to recognize when reality trumps any one's wish list.

William Flax

[ridesthemiles]

The Constitution says I have Freedom of Association.

It also means that I have FREEDOM of NON-ASSOCIATION.