Nobody cares about freedom when people are doing things they don’t like.
This came up in Philosophy — there's no such thing as limited free will
because if you argue that free choice is still free even when the most reprehensible things are removed from the options the same can be said of the remaining options until there is no option left and thus freedom of choice is denied.
But as for me, I find myself far more concerned about what the government could do to me than what people whose choices I don't like
can: when the government does it they can white-wash the actions, essentially falling back on the implicit assertion that all actions under their authority are good/righteous/legitimate, this excuse obviously doesn't hold up when the one making it is merely my peer as a Citizen
and not vested with governmental authority.