Conservative candidates today commonly declare that they are pro–Second Amendment. That’s fine, but it will be important for both conservatives and liberals to begin declaring that they are Pro–First Amendment.
The threats are clear. Many in the Obama administration seem to want to turn freedom of religion into freedom of worship. (Do what you want for an hour on Sunday, but not during the other 167 hours of the week.) Some on the left want freedom of speech and of the press to be no freedom for “hate speech” that includes any criticism of Islam or gay power. We still have freedom of assembly, but one out of four is not great.
That’s why it was good this week to see in …
