What is free speech and what is hate speech and should they both be protected as if they are interchangeable? So much hate speech is demanding complete freedom from censorship and the easy answer of just don't listen to it is no longer viable, because it has entered the public arena so insistently. Our new president is exposing us all to hate speech without limits. If we want to know about our government we read or hear this bile. That hate should call itself the champion of free speech is perverse and vile. I risk using an old fashioned phrase: is nothing sacred? If our government is free to label religions, countries and groups of people without contradiction, what has happened to the Constitution and the Fourth Amendment? People who wish for civility and kindness and restraint have no place in this new world. We who would "get along" are told that we are fools and dismissed. When the President has no idea what our democracy means, or truth is, then the distortion is devastating.
And if churches want to espouse politics then they should not be tax free. Then they become political entities. Yet the president says they can be as active as they want and we will pay the bill. We know he won't. He doesn't pay taxes. But he forces us to subsidize his political viewpoint. This is tyranny.
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