RE: Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Argumet
July 4, 2015 at 6:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 6:39 pm by Regina.)
^Well that's a different case if it comes to harassment or violence, which are actually crimes and can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Yes, I do actually think these people should have free speech to say "I don't agree with gay marriage". I don't want to see people with their mouths gagged, even if what they have to say is utter shite. However, if you're going to argue that their views must be protected from negative response and criticism that is also a violation of free speech. I don't think many people are saying it should be criminalised to say "I think marriage is between a man and a woman", but everything you say has consequences and if people disagree with you, they also have free speech to let that be known. You can't selectively protect some peoples' free speech while restricting others.
What these people are asking for is free speech, but they want that free speech to only apply to themselves. That's religion all over, play the victim card when it suits.
Yes, I do actually think these people should have free speech to say "I don't agree with gay marriage". I don't want to see people with their mouths gagged, even if what they have to say is utter shite. However, if you're going to argue that their views must be protected from negative response and criticism that is also a violation of free speech. I don't think many people are saying it should be criminalised to say "I think marriage is between a man and a woman", but everything you say has consequences and if people disagree with you, they also have free speech to let that be known. You can't selectively protect some peoples' free speech while restricting others.
What these people are asking for is free speech, but they want that free speech to only apply to themselves. That's religion all over, play the victim card when it suits.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
