Hate Speech

 I read an article that, according to the information I have, was written by David Horowitz. If you don’t know him, he is a founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), and has served as president of that organization for many years. He is the editor of the conservative Front Page Magazine, and his writings can be read on news sites and publications, including the conservative magazine NewsMax. His parents were communists and he was involved with the “radical left” for many years before becoming a conservative spokesman. Here is a part of that article:

“Progressives are adept at speaking the language of peace and love and justice; but these words are just a smokescreen for their real agendas which are search and destroy. Anybody who has ever encountered a progressive up close in any kind of political disagreement knows that this is a hate movement. They hate conservatives; they hate Republicans; they hate white males, and increasingly they hate Christians and Jews. They hated George Bush.

How can you hate George Bush? He may have done a lot of things that you wouldn’t have done; but how can you hate the man? But they do. They are haters. Their mouths drip with hate. You can’t name a single conservative spokesman from Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter, to Sarah Palin to, well, George Bush, who hasn’t been stigmatized, slandered, demonized, libeled, and trashed as indecent, beneath humanity, contemptible, toxic, and viral. And yet conservatives continue to call such haters … liberals!”

Where is the outrage on the part of Congress and others in regard to this “hate speech” which has become a everyday occurrence in our society. We want to punish those who hate black people, homosexual people, minority groups of one kind or another, and our enemies both foreign and domestic, but it is perfectly acceptable to hate George Bush and blame every woe of our society on him.

For you Believers reading this, would it be unfair for me to quote our Savior?

“You have heard that it has been said, You shall llove your neighbour, and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Llove your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. . . .”

Perhaps we need to chew on that for a while.