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To: Dale Baker who wrote (96321)	11/16/2008 2:01:38 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541955

The freedom to say ugly stuff is still freedom of speech. The freedom to discriminate is still freedom of association. When we constrain them, we are constraining freedom. What's the problem with acknowledging that, with calling a spade a "spade"? It seems to me intellectually dishonest to deny the obvious. Yeah, there is some "bad" speech and some "bad" association. We choose to permit the former and to constrain the latter. We have good reasons for doing so. Seems to me their intent was just the opposite, especially when you consider the addition of the equal protection clause in the amendments. Like I said, we choose to constrain one. The founding fathers gave us a tool to do that. We have traded off one right against another. That doesn't change the concept of freedom of association, only the application. What you're arguing sounds to me like refusing to acknowledge that Palin is an attractive woman because it might look like you're endorsing her for VP. We can acknowledge that some freedom of association was lost in the cause of equal protection without undermining equal protection.

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