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"...NO one has the right to someone's money. If "commerce" is stopped because someone has been persuaded to change (his) mind, God's angels rejoice, and another "business" losses a buck. It's the American way...."

It all depends on how one is trying to persuade. Offering leaflets to women entering a clinic or saying the rosary are clearly protected free speech. Touching women entering a clinic, impeding their path, yelling abusive statements, making threatening statements to employees etc. are not necessarily protected free speech. The supremes have stated today that the death industry cannot use RICO to punish protestors. I don't believe they have given the protestors free reign to engage in harassing activities or otherwise disrupting legal commerce.

I used to be in Operation rescue many years ago, and while we were willing to be arrested, stepped on by police horses, and having our hands forced behind our backs almost to the breaking point, when they started filing suit to take some of my friend's houses, it didn't seem fair. Particularly since Martin Sheen, Butterfly, the Berrigan Brothers and other brain-dead sycophants of the left always got off scott-free for trespassing on nuclear facilities, senator's offices or private timber operations.

Ed