Let's settle this: Hate speech is protected in the U.S.

[JDPriestly]

88. Thank you.

In particular, if we charged our government and courts with enforcing laws regarding religious speech, whether for or against it, we would have to agree on what religious ideas or statements are OK.

That would be a problem because we are not allowed to apply a religious test for appointing or electing our government officials.

Think of the fact that a Muslim (maybe more than one? I'm not sure) serves in our Congress alongside Jews, Mormons, Catholics, Protestants, people of various religions.

So what might insult Muslims might be precisely what Catholics or Protestants (or some Jews, Mormons, Catholics or some Protestants or Mormons) believe.

Our country is based on tolerance. And there is a good reason for it.

Would you want a devoutly Catholic judge to decide whether a video insults the Muslim religion? How would he or she know? And same for a Muslim judge deciding some issue concerning an alleged insult to the Jewish religion.

We have enough controversy in our society, enough personal conflicts about other people's religious beliefs. We don't need more. Our courts have too much to do already.