[Principled]

Because I believe in free speech, I don't advocate that we shut them up. But I don't want to pay for it.

Well said.

Let them compete in the arena of ideas as we do.

Well if their ideas had to compete, they'd obviously lose and they'd have to come up with new ideas. I would just as soon have them stick with their losers - heh heh

[Dan Middleton]

"'Because I believe in free speech, I don't advocate that we shut them up. But I don't want to pay for it.'

Well said."

Indeed. The First Amendment guarantees the right to express one's views, not the right to have one's views agreed with, endorsed, and sanctioned.