CAVEAT

Caveat: Latin, let him beware, from cavēre

OUR FULL CAVEAT
We have this nifty right in the United States: freedom of speech. It is not harassment, stalking or libelous to discuss a public figure, to state opinions concerning a public figure, or to report factual information concerning a public figure. Public figures are considered (but not limited to): politicians, talk show hosts, movie stars or recording stars.

Public figures choose to expose themselves (figuratively) to the public and hence must accept that they have given up their privacy as it pertains to their public life. Any and all personal issues that they choose to bring to the public's attention (think Spears and her shaved head) are thereby open to scrutiny.

If a talk show host can "rag" on the president of the United States, the world can "rag" on the talk show host. If someone is too thin skinned to understand this, they really shouldn't assume the role of a public figure. Your hosts may or may not agree with the opinions of guests.


Hate Speech

In the United States, government is broadly forbidden by the First Amendment of the Constitution from restricting speech, however this blog will not tolerate hate speech.

Hate speech is a term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic class, occupation or appearance (such as height, weight, and hair color), mental capacity and any other distinction-liability. The term covers written as well as oral communication and some forms of behaviors in a public setting. It is also sometimes called antilocution and is the first point on Allport's scale which measures prejudice in a society.

However the religious right refuses to allow this to be passed into law. They feel that their religious freedom to correct [attack] certain groups [gays, divorced people, Muslims] will be taken away. Until the law is passed, we are free to refer to the religious right as moronic knob gobblers [but we won't; that would be rude.]



What constitutes hate speech?

Example: gay marriage

Many people do not support gay marriage. It is their right to disagree with gay marriage. They are entitled to their opinion. They are free to say, "I don't believe in gay marriage because I believe that homosexuality is a sin. Let me cite some reasons before I listen to your counter-argument." (Ah to live in such a polite world!)

Hate speech would be, "I don't agree with homosexual marriage because f*** need to burn in hell. Jesus said f*** burn in hell. They are an abomination and are not saved."

Now please scroll up and view this blog's title. Don't forget to scroll back down. We'll wait.

Welcome back. This blog does not at any time support hate speech. We do point out the counterproductive and often harmful nature of fundie thinking. That is this blog's theme.

Because this is an open forum, language must remain appropriate for all ages and comments are required to be civil. We encourage a variety of opinions, even those we strongly disagree with, but if posts are deemed to be too inflammatory they will be deleted. Posts contained in public chatlogs will remain as they were originally posted since they are offered in their entirety for discussion/opinion purposes here and are to the best of our knowledge, the actual words of the poster to which they are attributed.



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