In the name of freedom . . .

John Senior, in a book published in the tumultuous but, by comparison to 2009, halcyon days of the late 1970s:

The Constitution does not establish atheism. . . . there is no question here at all of a religious establishment but, quite the reverse, of an inquisitorial Liberalism ruthlessly exterminating everything that disagrees with it -- in the name of freedom.

Inquisitorial Liberalism. Hold that thought. It is a precursor to Pope Benedict XVI’s “dictatorship of relativism," and what I call the tyranny of tolerance or the tolerance vigilantes.