Has Strength of Character become a Hate Crime?
By requiring personal responsibility from people as the necessary caveat for liberty, Alan Keyes provokes three, maybe four responses: most folks have temper tantrums and start whining, others run away screaming about hate crimes (which seems to be anything that expresses a moral judgement these days), and a steady few who think, "Whoa, I've never heard anything like this before... there's something to be learned here." And then there are some of us who find our thoughts articulated by a public figure for the first time in, oh, I don't know, ever since the Civil War, at least.
