Freedom of Speech

“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” – attributed to Voltaire, c. 1770.

“I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it, er, unless you say the n-word, or speak out about gay “marriage,” or, uh, criticize any policy of President Obama, or, mmm, say anything that may somehow hurt the feelings of someone or some group on the Left, even if you couldn’t possibly predict those hurt feelings, and, uh, hmmm, er … ” – attributed to 21st-century America.

[Oh, by the way, how soon until quotation marks around the word marriage, when said word is placed immediately after the word gay, becomes labeled “hate speech”?]