Thread: Freedom of Speech Vs. Hate Speech

Speech is free, actions are not. What one person may find patently offensive, others see it as free speech. I can remember the court fight over an artitst who was seeking public funding for a piece with a crucifix in a jar of urine. The artist said his freedom of speech was being denied because he couldn't get public grants for it. Personally I found his art to be tasteless and so offensive to the Christian world as to be horrid. However, as speech I do defend his Constitutional right to that speech. My objection was to the use of public money to support it. I don't ever remembering anything in the Constitution saying that we had to subsidize anyones right to that speech....