{"id":32988,"date":"2013-04-01T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/losing-their-right-to-be-the-majority-opinion.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:22:40","slug":"losing-their-right-to-be-the-majority-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/losing-their-right-to-be-the-majority-opinion.html","title":{"rendered":"Losing their "right" to be the majority opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"
Money quote:\u00a0<\/p>\n

'One of the folks we\u2019re talking about just asked me on Twitter, in so many words, "What happened to free speech? Now if you don\u2019t agree with gay marriage you\u2019re in trouble?" Obviously we all have free speech. But what people usually want with free speech is the ability to speak their mind and not have people think worse of them for it.<\/b> And on gay rights if not quite yet on full marriage equality, these folks sense they may be losing that right.'<\/i><\/p>\n

It's always hard when your opinion, openly expressed, goes from being the norm, to the majority, to debatable, to the minority. \u00a0<\/p>\n

See, also, this:\u00a0http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/gay_marriage<\/a><\/div>\n

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Whiplash<\/a>
\n Over the last few days, as the emerging national marriage equality consensus has become more clear, a number of social conservatives have begun suggesting they are now in a new and oppressive climate …\n <\/p>\n

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Money quote:\u00a0 'One of the folks we\u2019re talking about just asked me on Twitter, in so many words, "What happened to free speech? Now if you don\u2019t agree with gay marriage you\u2019re in trouble?" Obviously we all have free speech. But what people usually want with free speech is the ability to speak their mind … Continue reading “Losing their "right" to be the majority opinion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28296,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/because-democracy-is-clearly-not-about-equal-protection.html","url_meta":{"origin":32988,"position":0},"title":"Because "democracy" is clearly not about equal protection","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Jun-12 8:25am","format":false,"excerpt":".. or free speechIf you're going to give kids an assignment to write a speech on \"democracy\" and there are topic areas you want them to steer clear of -- like, for example, controversial topics, or topics that some parents might get into a tizzy over, even if they are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39305,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/pot-and-gays-america-approves.html","url_meta":{"origin":32988,"position":1},"title":"Pot and Gays: America approves","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Oct-13 11:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Both legalization of marijuana and gay marriage are solidly majority opinions in the US. \u00a0Who'dathunk?Though, as a commentary on the headline below, while I myself am okay with folks smoking pot, and am cool with gay weddings (having attended same and even played a role in same), if you're smoking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5282,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/when_they_came.html","url_meta":{"origin":32988,"position":2},"title":"When they came for …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Apr-04 7:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Where's Martin Niemoeller when you need him? 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