You were just on the campus of the college who pioneered destruction of free speech in the name of left-wing academic “tolerance.”

I am in fact thrilled, for example, that gays will be able to marry soon in California

This is at best a circumvention of insurance benefit designation for “traditional” marriage partners, and at worst a Trojan horse for expanded marital arrangements/benefits/privileges.

Not sure where that will lead us.

I know this is a little off topic but I was just wondering.

Why would a libertarian such as yourself support more government regulation and intervention in the private affairs of the citizens of a state ?

I find that puzzling in the extreme.

I doubt you’ll cheer when it leads to the same repressions of speech and religion in CA as in Canada. No sense fighting the inevitable, though.

What the citizens of these countries need if they have any hope of maintaining their rights is something their politicians are scared to death to give them.

The right to keep and bear arms.

“For more than twenty years, in this column and elsewhere, I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant’s right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgments on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover, “the process is the punishment” in these star chambers — for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.

My hope is that this case against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s will be fruitful. It will be, if it inspires enough people — especially journalists, of all political persuasions — to express outrage at what has been done; and inspires Canada’s free citizens into the necessary political action to put an end to the human rights commissions themselves. The worst possible result is if the case fails to produce this response.”