The Canary in the Culture

 

"In the olden days miners brought canaries into mines because canaries were very sensitive to toxic fumes and would keel over quickly, giving the miners time to escape before they were rendered unconscious.

The HHS mandate is serving a similar function in modern American culture. It's making it clear that liberals believe in an all-powerful government, not the government empowered by the people that is enshrined in the Constitution.

America has always striven to be about tolerance, yet the HHS mandate is showing us, hopefully early enough for us to take action, that liberals are not about tolerance but about using the full extent of government power to force people to do what liberals believe is good irrespective of the religious beliefs of those people."     [American Thinker]