The Dixie Chicks had the right to say what they said. I wouldn’t take away their right to speak their minds, regardless of my own opinions of the content of their message.
Having said that, it is also my right to decide whether or not I want to support them by purchasing their products.
Having said that, it is also my right to decide whether or not I want to support them by purchasing their products.
Well, hallelujah!
That's ALL that we've been saying here. Yes, these dudes had the right to protest Rudy Giuliani or whoever else they wished to today. But the rest of us have the right to decide whether or not we think their protest was likely to have a positive or negative effect on the pro-life movement, and, therefore, to decide whether or not we want to support those type of protests.
It only took 300+ posts going to recitations of the Bill of Rights and what the Constitution "allows" for us to get to the further point of saying, hey, regardless that they have the right to do it, the rest of us have the right to, in effect, shout back at them. Hallelujah!