Reply #66: that is nonsense.

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But you certainly have the right to express your thoughts here. There is no absolute freedom of speech, and the boundaries have been established in a fairly murky way, but political speech, and that is what the Phelps are all about, is held to be far more protected than other forms of speech. I'd love to see your evidence that there are legal grounds for your assertion above that speech used to defame groups for political reasons is somehow not protected. So, for example if I suggest that all Republicans are morons, that speech can be supressed? Or just if I suggest, as for example the hideous Ann Coulter has suggested, that women are not fit to vote, that sort of speech should be repressed? How about if I suggest that rich people are ruining this country through greed and corruption, surely that is hate speech that needs to be banned too, right?