[connell]

However, I think that some of the comments here demonstrate that many people believe they have the “right” to engage in uncivil speech, but that nobody else has the “right” to ask them to use better manners.

Seemingly. I always marvel at how the left says anything it wants, but then when we conservatives speak up against them, they complain that we are taking away their rights to speech. This scenario seems similar. More's the (ironic) pity.

[Tax-chick]

It is ironic. Yes, people have a legal right to use offensive terms toward others. And people have a right to ask others not to use offensive terms. What’s so confusing about that?

If one wants to make an argument that an individual or an organized group shouldn’t attempt to influence others’ speech ... well, okay, make the argument. But it has nothing to do with anyone’s Constitutional rights.