Texas preacher says gays should be executed

[TasteLikeWhiskey 1,561]

9 hours ago, jacs vs looser said:

Serious question for anyone who has American law knowledge: Are his statements protected by the first amendment? even though it is clearly hate speach and is also literally inciting people to murder? shouldn't he be persecuted for this/is he going to?

People living in America seems to not care about the law at all. They are either too busy preaching irrational equality between all persons based on some identity-politics approach or being a hateful god-fearing person

Since I care about the law, and since my backwards country would have punished speech like this, I had a look at the answers to your questions everyone gladly ignores. Here is what I can gather:

1. US constitution protects hate speech (unlike most constitutions that only protect speech that does not amount to hate speech). The first amendment protects hate speech. recently confirmed by their Supreme Court in Matal v Tam (2017).

2. Unless your actions lead to a defined crime, it is not violating the rights of others. The country recognizes 'hate crimes' and that may have a more severe sentence attached to it than a similar crime not motivated by hate towards a group of people.

So, it seems like the answers is yes. These kind of hateful remarks in public in the US is protected by their constitution. 

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Honestly I don't even know the use of the federal gov when they let people like him or trump talk 

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wow

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On 6/8/2022 at 12:08 PM, CyanDante said:

Isnt this a punishable offense?

Sometimes it's a fine line between making terrorist threats and expressing a general, first-amendment-protected opinion. He said they "should be" -- not "go do it", or "I'm going to do it". A specious distinction? Maybe so.

It's like if I said "Mankind will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest*."

* or preacher

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5 hours ago, TasteLikeWhiskey said:

1. US constitution protects hate speech (unlike most constitutions that only protect speech that does not amount to hate speech). The first amendment protects hate speech. recently confirmed by their Supreme Court in Matal v Tam (2017).

2. Unless your actions lead to a defined crime, it is not violating the rights of others. The country recognizes 'hate crimes' and that may have a more severe sentence attached to it than a similar crime not motivated by hate towards a group of people.

So, it seems like the answers is yes. These kind of hateful remarks in public in the US is protected by their constitution. 

Disgusting

What a ****ed up country

 

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This is so wrong in so many ways. I just dont think he deserves any discussion air about his hate speech. But this is not just hate speech, it's actually inciting people to crime. He tries to save face by making it out as if the laws of the country should execute gays lawfully, but he's actually preaching a religious doctrine opinion about killing people he disagrees with, he's not respecting the citizenry of the actual country. What a total piece of ****.

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On 6/8/2022 at 9:06 PM, TasteLikeWhiskey said:

You guys have a serious issue. 

I can't believe you people talk like this! And I live in "violent" Africa

They are perpetuating the use of guns in America. I don't blame them cause leaving in a country with psychos like this preacher must be scary af, but the pro-gun people tactic of spreading fear is working. Guns will never dissapear in America, they will increase.

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Is Jonny Goood the bass player from Texas by any chance? Sounds like some homophobic stuff he’d say