Originally Posted by Gilda

People have every right to believe that slavery, or genocide, or sex with children, is acceptible behavior, and to advocate in favor of that activity and for laws that support or decriminilze that behavior. As much as I find those activities repellant, I believe that if we are to have freedom of speech for anyone, that same freedom must apply to everyone. In that way, those who advocate in favor of these things are the same as advocates of homoesexual rights--people should have the right to defend their belief system, regarldess of what that belief system is.

This does not, however, make the actions advocated by those belief systems, and by extension, the belief systems themeselves, equivilent.

It is a society's duty, through enacting laws and enforcing laws, to protect innocents from harm and not to harm innocents.