"Political correctness is tyranny with manners" - Charlton Heston
We all think of Charlton Heston as a larger-than-life actor and a champion of the right to keep and bear arms. He definitely was both. With his passing, our movement loses a powerful and eloquent leader. Thankfully, we are blessed with many good leaders in our movement, but this fact does not diminish the loss that Charlton Heston's passage represents.



It is sometimes forgotten that Charlton Heston was one of the first Hollywood actors to speak out forcefully against racism and that he was very active in the civil rights movement. Heston helped the civil rights cause, in his own words, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable." He joined a picket line of a segregated movie theatre as early as 1961. He marched with Martin Luther King during the march on Washington in 1963.

There are great men and there are good men. Charlton Heston was both.