Reply #5: This is a terrible denial of civil rights [View All]

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While I support civil rights for all I wonder if this is going too far. Would we want such laws in the USA? I know Kerry supports full rights to gay citizens but would he want current hate crime legislation to cover this? I'm just curious as to what people think.

If you really support civil rights for all, then you must support the right of someone to say things you disagree with.

Of-goddamn-course this is going too far!!

A man was put in prison for saying what he believes! And moreover, he believes if he does not say it, he -- and others in his "flock" -- may suffer eternal damnation. His conscience cries out for him to say it, as much as did the conscience of any Christian martyr -- or as much Galileo Galilei's when told by the Church to deny scientific truth or be punished.

What happened in Sweden is a terrible denial of civil rights, not any sort of victory.

Soren Andersson isn't a civil rights leader; he's a Fascist with a friendly face.

To forestall anyone trying to read my motivations in my opinion, I think homosexuality should be up to the individual, I cheered when the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, I support gay marriage, I got tears of joy in my eyes when I watched the first gay marriages in Massachusetts, and I'm an unswerving atheist. But most fundamentally, I believe people have a right to be left alone by government, unmolested regardless of their beliefs.