Censorship of hate speech is an unconditional surrender to hate.

[Bluenorthwest]

33. As you know, any mention of Phelps or the Pope sends this crew packing, she will never even try

to explain why it's ok for the Pope to say God is at war with gay people and that others must fight that war for God if comics about a long dead historical figure are so massively insulting that laws must be passed. That poster says she loves Francis, loves him. Francis says gay rights come from Satan, he says our families are by their nature a form of child abuse and he says this as the leader of an organization attempting to hide their own child abuse. Francis says LGBT are 'inherently disordered' and 'disfiguring God' and his words are answered with hundreds of anti gay acts of violence each year.

The same straight religious people who did nothing to oppose Phelps for years on end, hundreds of attacks on funerals and other events, are simply livid about comics about a historical figure. They did not mind LGBT people being subjected to all of that extreme venom, at least not enough to take action. Threads about anti gay violence or actions on DU are met with little interest, and the contrast between those threads and these is frankly very hurtful to witness.