I don’t have a problem with anyone saying such words about myself or others, from a legal perspective.
It’s when they say such labeled people should be hurt or killed.
I want to be able to call gay lifestyles wrong and evil, and the gays who do that misguided and Satan-led.
The point you make is important in the context of America’s Constitution and it’s guarantees of freedom of speech aka The First Amendment.
In the Swedish context of ‘hate crimes laws’ and so on Christians and even Jews seem easy targets if they disagree with homosexuality, transgenderism and so on.
The Leftists in charge look like hypocrites if they choose not to prosecute this imam in that context.
I am a Christian Zionist and one-time Anti-Semite.
I reject the notion of ‘hate crimes laws’ as violations of freedom of speech they are Soviet style laws prosecuting people for speech.
Some think the next Holocaust has to prevented with such laws that infringe on First Amendment rights.
I do not share those views.
I just posted a “pridegroomers” need to learn what Sodom and Gomorrah was all about over on Twitter. Good Lord they came after me with hate speech and the worst was a guy was trying to justify soft groomers as opposed to pushy groomers.
I wasn’t banned but if I said the pridegroomers should be judged harshly with a millstone, I’d have the FBI after me.