[cookcounty]

"We want members of our community to know that they don't have to defend Judaism to Christian missionaries..... they have an absolute right to not be subjected to these ministrations in the first place."

".....this is not bout free speech."

This is the part I find wierd. These two statements are utterly incompatible. If you don't have the right to attempt to persuade people about fundamental issues ( "who is God?" " who are we?" "do we matter?" "why?"), then we do not have freedom of speech at all. So what does Ms. Wilner mean by "we have an absolute right....?

The most important freedom of speech is freedom of religious speech, because it has to do with the most basic, fundamental issues.

[ZviTheWise]

"This is the part I find wierd. These two statements are utterly incompatible."

Note that this is in Canada. Want to bet that the ADL or such will soon push for laws making evangelism punishable as "hate speech?"