2011-03-05, 11:01 AM
Kabanaw Wrote:They have a right to say what they want as long as it is within the confines of the law.
Hate speech is generally exempted from that in all reasonable cases, and there is no interpretation under which what these people are saying is not hate speech considering their specific message is "God hates _____".
Do you honestly think that if they were holding up a sign with a more crude variant of "Black People Gotta Die" at the funerals of african american soldiers and vets this would have the same ruling?
Read that guarantee again:
"right of the people peaceably to assemble"
There is nothing peacebly about assembling to harass a grieving family, regardless of your context. There is not peaceably about assembling to preach hatred.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.