Local Pastor Calls For Death of 'Queers & Homosexuals'

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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

mrstickball said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Wait a minute, why is he not in jail? Is it legal to say this shit in America?

Uh, really?

Freedom of speech mean anything to you? I guess you don't have that in your country.

What he said was horrible, stupid, and wrong. But he shouldn't go to jail for his words. He did not say he was going to kill, nor advised anyone to kill homosexuals. Since he did not, he didn't cross the line into specific threats against people.

Unless he does that, he should still have his 1st amendment rights to make such a statement - even if it is stupid.

Oh, shut your American hole. We are allowed to say whatever we want over here as long as we don't discriminate or threaten anyone in the process. By your logic, rasism should be allowed if the majority of a society think so.

The freedom of speech does not allow you to threaten or discriminate people over here. If America has other laws then that's beyond tragic.

Threatening I understand, but people should have every right to be a bigot and racist and spout their hateful opinions, just as you have a right to call these people exactly what they are.  The whole point of the first ammendment is to protect speech that is found offensive.  Why is there any point protected speech that isn't offensive?  Idiots like this and their hate mongering must be legally tollerated so that we are all protected from legislation that may infringe on our rights.  If you open the door to say "you can't use speech that discriminates" then that sets a precident for any speech that may be viewed as discriminatory, at the discretion of the government.

You can't legislate people's thoughts and views, and all opinions must be treated equally under the law, regardless of how repulsive we find them.