Articles in the UK prove that if met with resistance both conservatives and liberals believe such persecutory laws by government are contrary to the Constitution and free speech, free religion, and private property (i.e. including business affairs).

Mike wrote:
We need a poll to determine the obvious? Of course government threatens freedom. That's what it does when given free rein.
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." Thomas Jefferson 1788

But this has be going on since FDR (Social Security and New Deal laws) and Woodrow Wilson (who imprisoned dissent for WWI)...back further to 1861 (read why the Southern states really seceded)...yeah, go back to the Anti-Federalist speeches of Christian statesmen like Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams before 1787 and the Constitution's ratification!

And God said to Adam after his Fall, "because you listened (and acted accordingly) to the voice of your (attractive) wife...", etc. Satan still uses this same craft, Playbook 101 since the Garden, to breakdown righteousness and confound any reformation for good, i.e. infiltration and subtle usurpation from those of closest affinity, esp. marriage. King Solomon's wives even turned his heart toward idols. It is not uncommon for women to use their husband's power to achieve their own ambitions like this, craftily.

This not only happens in governments, but in churches and homes too--with devastating spiritual and social effects and declines! It is better not to have a wife and be alone than to have the wrong one. "A faithful woman who can find?"

Will you continue to patronize and financially support your now very open persecutors? Radical gay rights orgs make headway by their boycotts and shouting while being only 2 percent of the population...yet numerous Christians patronize *for the unessential world's goods* their persecutors despite their professed faith.

Thus their radical move will hurt their own party as many (i.e. a majority of blacks) who oppose homosexuality and many claim to be Christians (if they read the Democratic Party platform) will change registration to "Independent", and dissociate themselves from both President Obama's position and now that of the entire Democratic party on the issue of Homosexual Behavior (not "identity" or pretended "gay rights) as being contrary to true marriage, immoral, unnatural, unhealthy and contrary to the good of a well-ordered society.

The Democratic Party not only irrationally and immorally, but stupid politically, just gave reason to break the almost monolithic support they have had under "civil rights" cases as the Party attempts to force blacks (by mental whipping) to accept "gay rights" as equivalent to the Black "civil rights" movement, as if Race and Behavior are the same thing.

Read even their own blog article and myths are exposed (like the comment below) and the headline shown to be gross exaggeration.

The government is largely *secular* and is afraid of Islamic or other religious extremism, and therefore literature considered seditious, inflammatory, or might tend to insurrection. Is there not a hint that the title of the Bunyan book was suppressed in this article? What if it was his book called "Holy War"? Would that not be treated (ignorantly of course) as possibly like a Christian Jihad title? They are cracking down on Jihadist literature, so of course they would confiscate (as governments get paranoid, like even the U.S. government has since 9/11) anything that would be controversial or in an unknown language.

All of the fortune 500 companies will defend the new PC laws supporting "gay rights" and the confusion of marriage....for money of course. Only family and private businesses will stand up like Chick Filet, and not bow to State corporation-status pressure.

It was under the Church of England (even in the Colonies) that taxation for the clergy was a law when church and state were entangled and an ecclesiastical tyranny was imposed on Christians requiring them to support the corrupt State church. *All national and ceremonial laws* (like the tithe) for Israel are abolished since 70 A.D. when Jerusalem was destroyed along with its sacrifices and priesthood and Old Testament political system.