Today's gay-marriage movement seems far more eager to silence its critics than debate them.

Free speech under siege

Colleen Carroll Campbell

How times have changed. In just a few short years, a movement once known for championing tolerance has become the epitome of intolerance. Using their culturally sanctioned victim status as cover, America's gay-rights leaders have become the iron-fisted enforcers of a strict new speech code in which anyone who questions same-sex marriage is denounced as a hateful, homophobic bigot. Erstwhile pleas for "dialogue" about the best way to protect both the institution  of marriage and gay and lesbian interests have been replaced by blatant bullying and vicious personal attacks. Its 'silence = death" slogan notwithstanding, today's gay-marriage movement seems far more eager to silence its critics than debate them.
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