The Dixie Chicks have a new film coming out about their experiences after the Bush comment. With both support for the Iraq war, and Bush's job approval at 33% one wonders what some of these folks would say about the threats they made. I particularly love the old guy at the end who said something along the lines of, "freedom of speech is fine, as long as it's not in public."
On to freedom of speech; I'm just starting to grasp how cynically horrible this new "freedom of hate speech" move is from the right. If you haven't tuned in, the idea is that gay bashing is constitutionally protected as freedom of religion. I wonder how far that line of thought goes? Especially with the Old Testament. Can we stone people to death? Can we give our wives and daughters over into prostitution?
I mean, how sick is that? Take a constitutional guarantee meant to protect the minority and turn it into a bludgeon for the blood thirsty majority to abuse and harass the minority.
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