Never-ending

Sometimes the reluctance of the media to move off a subject is annoying.  For once, though, I'm glad we're still talking about one of those stories that just won't go away.  In a column by David Limbaugh, one can read another brilliant defense of freedom of speech as it pertains to should-have-been Miss USA, Carrie Prejean.  If people, especially liberals, were as open to people believing and doing whatever they want as they say they were, we wouldn't ever have heard anything about this.  However, since the Left's idea of an open mind is one that is in lockstep with theirs, this is in the news, and it becomes more and more apparent that true defenders of the first amendment are those who think it's okay for people to express their opinions and tell the truth about the way they feel, not those who would silence someone just because they may hold a differing opinion.

In the same vein, what is it about people getting offended over what others say?  (For a rather humorous viewing experience, watch Ann Coulter's take on asking if she'd like to be waterboarded.  Coulter is one who definitely pays no attention to what others think of her.)  Homosexuals say they're offended by this incident.  Atheists sometimes claim they're offended by people mentioning God in public.  How is this?  How can people be offended by someone expressing what is considered to be an opinion or a point of view (of course, I will go so far as to say it is the correct point of view)?  Why are people defining themselves by what others think of them?  People should define themselves by who they are, not what others think of them.  This is even easier when one understands the simple truth that one is a child of God.