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The evening after the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, a California pastor took the opportunity to preach that "God said: When you find a sodomite, put them to death.'" A video of the sermon was uploaded by the church, then deleted "for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech." A copy of the video uploaded by someone else, describing the sermon as "despicable," was allowed to remain.
coverage:
- Sacramento Bee
- CBS (about sermon)
- New York Daily News
- Washington Post
further information:
Facebook page for Verity Baptist Church
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(Score: 2) by korger on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:10PM
XKCD is technically right about free speech, but misses an important point: that by its own definition, namely that free speech means that the Government can't arrest you for what you say, free speech is really useless. For what good is Government not being able to arrest us, if zealots not associated to the Government can kill us or at least make us unemployable, if they don't like what we are saying? If the 1st Amendment does not protect us from the worst outcomes, then it's worthless. XKCD tries to spin it that the only thing that may happen is that others stop listening, but there's plenty of evidence that it's a lot worse than that.