I agree with most of what the article says, with one exception:

"We don’t determine what civil liberties our children get based on who can make money and who can’t; we base them on what our parents fought and bled for."

Lots of people fought and bled over lots of issues, but the act of fighting and bleeding has absolutely no bearing on whether they were right or wrong. This just seems to be deliberately emotionally-loaded language, and the article would be better off without it.