To: HeartlandOfAmerica
The true test of whether you believe in the 1st Amendment comes when you are subjected to speech you find highly offensive. If you're OK banning speech you find highly offensive, then you have to be OK banning pastors discussing the evils of homosexuality or other so-called "hate speech."
The 1st Amendment allows all kinds of offensive speech. Either deal with it, or just admit that you have no problem banning free speech as long as it's speech you don't like.
47 posted on
03/02/2011 8:28:29 AM PST by
TexasAg
To: TexasAg
From the CNN article:
Only Justice Samuel Alito dissented. He said the church’s “outrageous conduct caused petitioner great injury, and the court now compounds that injury by depriving petitioner of a judgment that acknowledges the wrong he suffered,” he said. “In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated, it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims like petitioner.”
49 posted on
03/02/2011 8:29:44 AM PST by
Hawk720
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson