This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously in the wake of published remarks by Rep. Steve King to condemn “white nationalism and white supremacy.” Mr. King voted for the resolution, underscoring his animosity towards such practices, and his devotion to Western civilization.

One of the hallmarks of our civilization is a commitment to individual liberty.  The highest expression of that commitment is to be found in the U.S. Constitution with its guarantees of unalienable, God-given rights.  The most foundational of these is freedom of speech. 

Every legislator who voted Tuesday has sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.” Yet, singling out certain forms of supremacism for criticism is a formula for restricting some speech as “hateful” – and, thereby, eroding one of our most important, and needed, bulwarks against supremacism of all kinds. 

This is Frank Gaffney.