Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
The entire point of freedom of speech is to protect the right to say offensive, disgusting things.
There's protecting the right to be free from persecution from government and then there's forcing the rest of society to suppress their right to free speech in criticizing.

The whole name of the game is that people conflate freedom from government with freedom from everyone else. That just isn't the case. You live in a society and are "A" member of that society not "THE" member of that society.