On this day in 1999 Charlton Heston gave a speech on the topic Winning the Cultural War at the Harvard Law School Forum.

Here is an excerpt:

Ive come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain accepted thoughts and speech are mandated.

For example, I marched for civil rights with Dr. King in 1963 and long before Hollywood found it acceptable, I may say. But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone elses pride, they called me a racist.

Ive worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life throughout my whole career. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe.

I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out the innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite.

Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution Im talking about, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh.

From Time magazine to friends and colleagues, theyre essentially saying, Chuck, how dare you speak your mind like that. You are using language not authorized for public consumption.

But I am not afraid. If Americans believed in political correctness, wed still be King Georges boys subjects bound to the British crown.

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This Day: Charlton Heston speaks at Harvard about Political Correctness - The Apopka Voice