November 1, 2009

 Hugh Hewitt: Deepak Chopra’s hate speech

By: HUGH HEWITT

Examiner Columnist

President Obama signed “hate crimes” legislation last week, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement praising the new law, saying that in “this country, no one should suffer persecution, discrimination or violence because of who they are, how they look or what they believe.”

Amen to that thought, and amen especially to the idea of protecting belief, including beliefs unpopular within liberal opinion elites. Perhaps the president and the speaker can find some time to let their left-wing supporters know that the accusation of hate is itself hateful, and that slanders against Christians for holding to their beliefs and the beliefs of hundreds of generations of Christians before them are as repugnant to them as the verbal attacks by bigots on people of color.

Spiritualist Deepak Chopra comes to mind as one of the Left’s loudest purveyors of hate speech. Chopra has a problem with the beliefs of mainstream Christianity and its place in America and American history, but his deep prejudice goes unrebuked by champions of tolerance like Pelosi.

Chopra’s first salvo against mainstream Christianity was fired in the Huffington Post after last fall’s presidential forum hosted by Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Valley Community Church.

via Hugh Hewitt: Deepak Chopra’s hate speech | Washington Examiner .