Exercising these freedoms has been the key to persuading more and more people to come out with the truth about homosexuality, thereby rendering homophobic lies powerless. Given how essential First Amendment freedoms have been to gay liberation, it is disheartening how many gay people seem ready to give them up. All across the country gay organisations have called for hate crime laws to criminalise people for saying the wrong things. University groups have supported campus speech codes that punish students and faculty for words judged 'demeaning' . Anyone who participates in these campaigns to curtail freedom of expression is a dangerous fool.
Freedom really is indivisible.
Truth does not need the' protection' of any bureaucrat, librarian or web master. However politically correct or seemingly well-intentioned, 'protected truth' always putrefies into oppressive dogma. Instead of trying to safeguard only expression we personally approve of , we must fight to expand First Amendment liberties for everyone. As congress and the courts ram through chilling new censorship legislation, and as the President calls for increased regulation of television, telephone, and cyberspace communications, we must resist, not cooperate. Instead of pursuing some officially sanctioned facsimile, we must defend the freedoms that reveal the real truth, the genuine source of our liberation.