“And the article you quoted applies to the STATES suing you.”
And I might also stress, not just suing you, but prohibiting free speech in general.
States have an interest in protecting it’s citizens and therefore pass laws, generally based on a ‘public’ referendum, to do just that.
All law, whether state or federal, must be ‘reasonable’ and ‘prudent’ and must not infringe on others rights.
Libel and slander laws are reasonable and prudent because it protects citizens from vicious attacks and harm to reputations and personal comfort.
You are looking for a way to defend the undefendable by ignoring the fact that States have the right to defend it’s citizens, barring Constitutional mandates, from verbal or physical attack.
Your argument has been show to be wrong, and yet you continue on your blind search to find a defendable position that would allow the Phelps the right to say anything they want to anyone.
Until you understand that citizens have those rights to peaceable coexistence, then arguing with you is pointless.
And I don’t have that many hours in the day to waste.
So please, either educate yourself, or find someone else to argue with.
I have other things to do. I’m not going to waste anymore time with you on this.