How serious are you about your liberty?

I am still reeling from the impact of Ben Stein's movie! If you have not seen it, then please do yourself and humanity a favor and be informed by the opposite side of the Darwinist debate. I do not doubt that certain people will not buy into all that Mr. Stein is presenting, nevertheless, at least give it a hearing in the public discourse of our country.

The question becomes, as Mr. Stein points out, whether we desire for liberty to be expressed at all. If Intelligent Design, as a scientific theory can not even be heard, then how can we claim that we have freely OR SCIENTIFICALLY come to the truth?

The truth. It is such a solid and undisputable thing, yet many people seek to cover it up or to weigh it down in policies. I just came across a debate that I had never heard of, but which each of us Americans - and even those of you who are of my worldwide audience - should be aware. In Canada, a certain publisher has of late been subjected to "private interrogation" by a branch of his own government because someone apparently claimed he had committed a thought crime. Here is his position from the Glenn Beck program on CNN:



Mr. Levant has even, as you heard, had the wherewithal to videotape his experience. He placed these videos on the Internet on Youtube. Let us watch a few, they are not that long. Here is a beauty that begins the whole "interrogation." It is entitled "Opening Statement.":



Another example that makes the debate more clear is this one entitled "I don't answer to the state.":



While you may disagree with his presentation, the idea of freedom of speech should resonate with us Americans and us Catholics. As Christians, entrusted with the ancient fullness of the Christian Faith, we should not be afraid to be free in our speech, even if this means that we are persecuted because of our witness to the Gospel. As Americans, we should hold that liberty as sacrosanct in order that we citizens may be informed when government or big business is really acting in a dangerous or wasteful way. In the same vein, Mr. Levant should be lauded for upholding his inalienable right to offer his position in a public debate.

On the other hand, what you may not have noticed is that this whole post today is coming from one point of view, we have not heard the position of the Mohammedan gentleman who denounced Mr. Levant to the Human Rights Commission. In the same, way if your sense of fairness inspires you to want to look into the other side, I hope that you will also feel compelled to see "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". For only in listening to this opposite side of this particular debate do we arrive more fully at the truth. As regards, Expelled the movie, I think any one who watches it will receive a deeper appreciation not only of a secular approach to the possiblity of a supreme being's existence (who Christian's know as the Holy Trinity), but also of the nature of this debate where free speech has been squashed.

Any thoughts?