The Democrats' Big Lie

The Democratic Party, we are led to believe, is the party of live-and-let-live, you-do-your-thing-I'll-do-mine, let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom morality. Part and parcel of the Democratic commitment to tolerance, we are told, is their commitment to religious and political diversity.

At the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan 2005, Rep. Nancy Pelosi explained, "We must continue to work to promote religious tolerance; our diversity as a nation is one of our greatest strengths." In April 2005, Sen. Hillary Clinton stated, "Religious liberty is one of the most important issues on the world's agenda today." Today, Barack Obama warns that Democrats must not "equate tolerance with secularism and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning."

Similarly, throughout the war on Islamofascism, Democrats have declared that political dissent is sacrosanct -- that political dissent, in fact, is the highest form of patriotism. "Patriotism is about refusing to support something you know is wrong and having the courage to speak out with strength and passion and backbone for something you know is right," Sen. John Edwards recently stated. Sen. Hillary Clinton shrieked in April 2003: "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, 'We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!'"

Democratic tolerance means tolerance for secularism, but absolute intolerance for religion. Democratic tolerance means tolerance for their supporters, but absolute intolerance for their political opponents.

The proof is in the pudding: The House Democrats are currently pursuing policies that would criminalize religious thought and crack down on political speech. On May 3, House Democrats voted to create extra penalties and additional investigatory funding for crimes committed against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, transvestites and others with statistically deviant "sexual orientations" or "gender identities."

This bill is aimed at quashing traditional religious thought. No one advocates violent attacks in any case -- all this "hate crimes" bill does is stigmatize anti-homosexuality religious principle. All "hate crimes" are thought crimes, designed to more harshly punish offenders for their racism, sexism or religious bigotry. By lumping in "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" with categories like race and religion, House Democrats seek to legally enshrine homosexuality as morally legitimate.

It will not be long before Democrats apply the same principle -- homosexuality as protected status -- to federal housing and employment law. The day is close at hand when church organizations are forced to hire homosexuals, when parochial schools are punished for firing Mary-formerly-known-as-Bob.

But Democrats aren't only focusing on silencing traditional religion. They're focusing on shutting down conservative thought more generally. Naturally, the Democrats are targeting Rush Limbaugh and Salem Radio Network in particular. To that end, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Pelosi are eager to reinstate the misnamed Fairness Doctrine, which would effectively shut down talk radio.

The defunct Fairness Doctrine required radio stations to warn political figures before they were attacked, and then give the political figures airtime to respond. It also forced stations to give equal time to proponents and opponents of given issues and candidates. Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine would essentially turn talk radio into PBS, restoring a virtual monopoly to the major liberal media.

The Democrats do not stand for "live and let live." If you want to make a liberal utopian omelette, they say, you have to break some religious and constitutional eggs. And if you have to lie to the American people to do it, so be it.

Democratic tolerance means tolerance for secularism, but absolute intolerance for religion.

Very true. Just as Islam is hateful and violent towards anything that opposes it - secularism and the hatred of God (the real one) is just as oppressive and evil.

When I read the title about the Democrat’s Big Lie the only thing that came to mind was the question...which one?
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Same here ,, my thought was it was going to be the lie that they support minorities and want to help them...

The thing is, liberals lie on just about every claim they make. They aren’t really in favor of free speech, they aren’t in favor of diversity, they aren’t in favor of the Constitution, they are the party of racism and totalitarianism. Pretty much, anything they claim their believe in their actions prove they are lying....except for maybe abortion...they are pretty consistently in favor of death, unless it’s a criminal’s death.

It is critical to realize deep in your bones, that one of the most important ways that liberals lie

It is MOST IMPORTANT to recognize that the sneakiest way that liberals lie is by applying words to a situation that actually have the OPPOSITE meaning!!!!

Some examples:

1. “GAY” being applied to sexual orientation that is anything but that.
2. “Fairness Doctrine” (treated above)
3. “Tolerance” (above)
4. “Choice” ... certainly not for the baby!

I’m sure everyone reading this could add a couple more of their own with a little thought... I’ll let y’all add to this list.

“Democratic tolerance means tolerance for secularism, but absolute intolerance for religion. Democratic tolerance means tolerance for their supporters, but absolute intolerance for their political opponents. “

I don’t know of any entity more intolerant of opposing viewpoints than the Democratic Party - excluding the jihadists of the world.

If you include the jihadists, its a draw...

When I read the title about the Democrat’s Big Lie the only thing that came to mind was the question...which one?

My candidate was the conceit that journalism is, or possibly could be, objective. The perspective of journalism is simply the things that it will talk about, and the things it will not talk about. IOW, journalism is negative because "if it bleeds, it leads," journalism is superficial because of deadline pressure, and journalism is unrepresentative because of its preference for "Man Bites Dog" rather than "Dog Bites Man" headlines.
And that is just the general outline. It is also true that journalism will talk about anything else before it will make a simple declarative statement that some journalist in good standing has jumped the shark. I.e., no journalist will state that the "Killian memos" were crude forgeries which Dan Rather and Mary Mapes promoted with no regard to any serious reality check - and CBS did a transparent coverup of the fact that that 60 Minutes episode was a partisan anti Bush hit piece, and neither more nor less.
IMHO that is the linchpin of all the other Big Lies out there, because no Big Lie worthy of the name does not promote itself via Big Journalism.

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