To place on a really, really high pedestal. It might be a person (Linus is God, all tongue-in-cheek, all in good fun; or is it?). It might be an idea - free speech, for instance. I say absolute freedom corrupts absolutely, like the freedom to both shout "Fire!" in a crowded building and the freedom to start such fires. Freedoms tend to be gods - if you're perceived as attacking, say, sexual freedom, or the "freedom to make money", people might reach for their slingshots and stones.