So its free speech to get together to block speech?
Everyone is for free speech it seems, just so long as its free speech they agree with.
Well, no, you still don't get it.
It was free speech for us to express our objections. We don't have control of the network. They made the decision to pull the episode.
Free speech has consequences. The network could have made the decision to play the episode again, but they made a judegement based on the consequences. Just like the Catholics knew the consequences for them would be that people would laugh at them for making the objection. But Catholics feel that defending the honor of the Virgin Mary outweighs those consequences.