TIME TO REPEAL 1st AMENDMENT?

Our society is changing.  

Many people would say it is changing for the better.  We no longer tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia or anti-gay people, ethno-centrism or extremely religious Christian zealots.  Anyone who outspokenly exhibits any of these traits or beliefs are immediately branded, raked over the coals and shunned.  

The current political correctness in our American society has made everything so much better, hasn’t it?.  Everyone better watch their P’s and Q’s, fall in line with the rest of the mindless drones who don’t have any opinion, or if they do–do NOT express it publicly.

The lines have been drawn.  Certain people have found out what happens when you cross them.  Marge Schott, Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis, Rush Limbaugh were busted for crossing that line over the past two decades.  More recently, Paula Deen, myself, and now Phil Robertson have stepped over that line and got whacked.

All those names above had the courage, and in most cases, either stupidity or ignorance, to say something that they believed, or was their opinion.  They also all had the mistaken belief that they were living in a free country, with an established amendment to the country’s constitution providing freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

It is therefore my belief that it is time to repeal that amendment.  

The first amendment gives ALL Americans the right to free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, as well as the right to assemble, protest and petition the government.

–Phil Robertson recently proved once again that we don’t have free speech.  

–There hasn’t been a newspaper in the country who has written anything bad about Obama in six years.  

–School districts have removed the pledge of allegiance from most school’s because it has the word God in it, and God has been taken out of most government buildings. schools and businesses.  

–Finally, it seems any time anyone protests the policies of the current administration in Washington, the national guard gets called in.

No, most of those freedoms and rights in that stupid ol’ first amendment have about as much meaning as a Will Ferrell movie, so lets just get rid of it!

In case you haven’t heard about Phil Robertson, well, join the club.  I had never heard of the guy until a few days ago, when something he said in a GQ magazine interview lit up twitter, news channels and social media feeds like a Christmas tree.  

Apparently, this Phil Robertson is some “good ol’ boy” from Louisiana, who was fortunate enough to have fallen into reality show stardom on some show called “Duck Dynasty”.  Now I don’t know Duck Dynasty from the Ming dynasty, so I had to look it up.  

Phil Robertson said that, to him, homosexuality is a sin, and that he didn’t believe that a man loving a man in the biblical way, was right.  He didn’t mention anything about a woman and a woman, but that’s beside the point.  He was subsequently suspended by the network that airs the show indefinitely.  

Why should this guy lose his (nicely paying) job just because he doesn’t have the same beliefs as the political correctness machine?  While I’m at it, why do the networks and news organizations have to cover this “story” like he committed a triple homicide?  This whole political correctness BS is getting out of control!!!

Here is another way of looking at it.  If gay people and black people and other minorities didn’t have the first amendment right to speak out about how things were, where would they be now?  I’ll tell you where.  Black people would still be at the back of the bus and gay people would still be in the closet.  Now, when anyone says anything that goes against the machine, everyone gets a geather up their butts.  You can’t have it both ways folks!

I lost my job because of similar circumstances.  I said that the LPGA golf tour was losing popularity and fans in America because they have too many Asian golfers playing on the tour, and that perhaps they should think about capping the number of them getting on the tour.  I have nothing against Asian people–I was being PRO LPGA and trying to offer a helpful suggestion.  After all, the Japanese professional baseball league has a limit of only two US born players per team.  Americans cheer for americans at the olympics.  They don’t cheer for foreigners.  This is an American based tour.  I didn’t think what I said was that inflammatory, yet in addition to being fired, I was a national news story, was reviled as a racist, and actually called the “racist of the week” nationally by one website.  I think many cult-member followers of “Deadspin”, who don’t have lives of their own, still think I am “the new Hitler”.  Maybe they, and the gay and lesbian groups can now tab Phil Robertson to take oer that mantle from me and Mrs Deen.

Seriously though, it is an unfortunate situation that people’s lives can be so negatively affected by speaking their minds or being upfront about their core belief system or religious upbringing, especially in a country that is supposed to protect peoples rights to speak them.  We have lost over one an a half million American servicemen in all of this country’s wars to protect this first amendment and each and every other amendment in the constitution.  Let us not forget that.

Either we need to repeal the first amendment, and have a country of mindless, un-opinionated zombies….or keep it and all of our other rights and protections around, and everyone needs to just LIGHTEN UP!