There was a time when liberals were to be admired, they stood for and fought for the rights of all. While the liberal label hangs on, contemporary liberals have become intolerant of anyone who dares disagree with their accepted truths.

Take, for example, Garrison Keillor, that great liberal story teller (Chicago Tribune, 30 Sept. 09):

“The so-called cultural wars over abortion and prayer in the schools and pornography and gays did nothing about anything, except elect dullards to office…”

“And now here comes the U.S. Supreme Court, about to rule in the case of a little plywood cross erected, as it turns out, on federal land in the Mojave Desert as a memorial to the war dead -- could there be anything less pressing right now? But we shall have great legal minds wrangling over something that doesn't make a dime's worth of difference to anybody whomsoever.”

“…one starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.”

So, let’s see, among his the liberal positions are:

Taking an innocent life is not worthy of discussion and the 50% of Americans who think so are just wasting time.

Freedom of religion (the second amendment to the Constitution) is not an issue important enough for the Supreme Court.

Those who disagree with the various proposed “overhauls” of the health care system should be made second class citizens. There’s that pesky 14th amendment to the Constitution again).