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 Media Center
Hate speech, however, is different in a very fundamental way than the insulting, critical speech that warrants first amendment protection even when it is directed at a specific individual.
Hate speech and other kinds of expression that can be identified as actionable harassment do not warrant this status because they communicate a noxious idea.
The regulation of hate speech in the academic setting may erode the commitment of a generation of Americans to a liberal system of free expression.
http://www.orono.k12.mn.us/apage/HighSchool/MediaCenter/newdebate.html   (15130 words)

  
 firstamendmentcenter.org: Internet & First Amendment in Speech - Topic
Although not a “hate speech” case per se, the case sheds some light on how courts may handle such a case in the future.
The Mitchell court thus seemed to suggest that “hate speech” remains a conundrum: The only way it can be prohibited is if the statute that does so is “content-neutral” — yet the point of proscribing hate speech in the first place is to proscribe the content of the speech.
The Court reasoned that “the First Amendment does not permit [a government] to impose special prohibitions on those speakers who express views on disfavored subjects.” The Court considered that it was overbroad in that any such speech used by “proponents of all views” whatever its context would be prohibited.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/internet/topic.aspx?topic=internet_hate_speech   (1092 words)

  
 [Cause-members] FW: Higher Ed LGBT Articles Digest #129
The Illinois Supreme Court, in such a case, held that the victim is still a victim of a hate crime.
If the perpetrator's motive in committing the crime is the victim's race, for example, then the state may enhance the penalty assessed.
Most states today do have some type of hate crime statute, but the coverage varies.
http://listbot.csustan.edu/pipermail/cause-members/2003-June/000212.html   (10275 words)

  
 Countering Cyberhate: More Regulation or More Speech? - Human Rights Magazine, Summer 1998
"Our view that the speech is not protected stems from the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ruled that threats are not protected by the First Amendment," said U.S. Attorney Michael Gennaco, citing the case of R.A.V. v.
While Machado has maintained that his act was both a prank and protected speech under the First Amendment, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Santa Ana disagreed.
New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), that allows the government to punish a limited class of speech "likely to provoke the average person to retaliation, and thereby cause a breach of the peace." Reitinger noted that because this exception has been rarely used, "it is hard to imagine its application to cyberspace."
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/sum98cacas.html   (1661 words)

  
 Hate Speech on Campus
And in another landmark ruling, in 1989, the Court upheld the right of an individual to burn the American flag in public as a symbolic expression of disagreement with government policies.
But the First Amendment doesn't protect the use of nonverbal symbols to encroach upon, or desecrate, private property, such as burning a cross on someone's lawn or spraypainting a swastika on the wall of a synagogue or dorm.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content.
http://www.aclufl.org/take_action/download_resources/info_papers/16.cfm   (1961 words)

  
 Christian Action - Standing for Righteousness & Truth
This is not "hate speech" but is a standard legal argument and one that was accepted by the courts in the United States, for example, (Bowers v.
The complaints are that the book contravenes the "prejudice" and "hate speech" clauses in the Film and Publications Act.
Knoesen points out that the Film and Publications Act also prohibits
http://www.christianaction.org.za/media_egroups/aca_2002-01-22.htm   (2613 words)

  
 Homophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Besides public expression, specific laws have been made to oppose homophobia, as in hate speech, hate crime, and laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
) Opponents of same sex marriage legalization, child adoption by same-sex couples, and anti-gay hate crimes are often accused of homophobia for not supporting this legislation.
The term "homophobe" has also been used to describe opponents of laws considered favorable to gay rights causes.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobe   (2744 words)

  
 Law Abstracts Zanghellini
I advise against censoring pornography out of egalitarian concerns, and argue that, under certain conditions, engagement with court litigation and the deployment of the rights discourse can be promising strategies for lesbians and gay men challenging such obscenity laws.
As such, these laws bear a presumption of being an unnecessary burden on freedom of expression, a liberty that minorities have a vested interest in keeping as intact as possible.
This remedy will be consistent with free speech doctrine to the extent that hate speech will, setting apart some specific cases, escape regulation, and that the State will assume an attitude directed to reaching understanding.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/law/abstracts/zanghellini.html   (316 words)

  
 Homophobic hate speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the United States, almost all forms of hate speech are legal under the Constitution, unless used to directly incite a specific act of violence, or a direct threat of violence.
This speech may also refer to specific sexual acts that the speaker associates with homosexuals (e.g., fudgepacker or "butt pirate", which can refer to anal sex).
Some might think of laws against such public speech as protecting homosexuals from abuse and unwarranted hostility, whereas others often think of such laws and regulations against "thoughtcrime", and otherwise restricting/interfering with free speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobic_hate_speech   (406 words)

  
 Discriminations: Hate Speech? Archives
(I say sexual-orientationist because heteronormative or heterocentric don't connote the same inequity and hate that the "ist" words do).
Regarding your objection to having emails read by investigators: I understand you and your objections.
Posted by: on April 1, 2004 02:37 AM The Chapel Hill student above (let's call him/her "PC") misses the point, the point being the First Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the making of any law that abridges freedom of speech.
http://www.discriminations.us/storage/002561.html   (4312 words)

  
 GAP :: News & Events
Now they seem to believe instead that the limitations this judgment set to the scope of what may be classified as objectionable was indeed "the original intent of Parliament", despite considerable evidence to the contrary.
There have been numerous cases in New Zealand in recent years, sometimes leading to actual deaths.
But it is a balance which must be aimed for nevertheless, and one which must be taken seriously by Parliament.
http://www.gap.org.nz/news/index.php?view=news&action=write1&id=133   (1807 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative: Books
Butler questions the contemporary practices of the adjudication of speech which seeks to define what is correct speech and what is proscribable under law.
If words are legally indistinguishable from conduct, then, Butler asks, is law not complicit in the wounds that words cause?
Butler's concern in 'Excitable Speech' is to critique legal representations of hate speech from a post-structuralist perspective.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415915880?v=glance   (1948 words)

  
 Rap Music Online - Free MP3 Downloads - Ringtones - RapMusic - Hip Hop - HipHop - Rap Videos
Passionate advocates of civil liberties and free speech wondered, sometimes aloud, whether rappers were taking those privileges too far.
The most popular and controversial of the militant rappers, the New York based Public Enemy, were perhaps the most political as well.
Many critics find their line between art and reality too thin, and hate to see them spreading their gospel from the top of the charts (2Pac's 1995 album "Me Against the World" debuted at No. 1 even as he was serving a prison sentence), or serve as role models for international youth.
http://rap.music.us   (2904 words)

  
 8theist.com Welcomes You!! - Archives
Opponents of the ruling say it illustrates the dangers of a bill currently in Parliament that would add "sexual orientation" as a protected category in Canada's genocide and hate crimes legislation.
Certain passages of the Bible can be construed as hate literature if placed in a particular context, according to a Canadian provincial court.
That legislation would make criminals of people like Owens and others who have been charged under provincial human rights panels, they argue.
http://8theist.com/Archives.htm   (3278 words)

  
 Oracle Online
Hoffman said she has now specifically instructed all officers to watch for any suspicious activity that might be related to acts of intolerance.
We are, of course, referring to the five acts of hate speech against the GLBTIA community in the last two months.
What it is that makes you feel the need to act out in such a puerile, angry fashion?
http://www.hamline.edu/oracle/archives/2005/04/12   (1242 words)

  
 Dhimmi Watch: Message of hate brought to Ohio campus
Dear JihadWatch...I am a subscriber to your articles.however, I think it is time for us to unite and have a petition to the President of the United States and our government.
A disquieting story about the propagation of jihadist "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" slander in the United States, unconscionable dhimmitude from a Presbyterian "peacemaking group" — and nothing but supine silence from officials at an American college.
Pozefsky e-mailed his concerns on the faculty listserve, but the response he got "was a combination of hostility and complacency." On one occasion, a colleague accused him of trying to violate free speech.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/000934.php   (1944 words)

  
 LE REVUE GAUCHE - Libertarian Communist Analysis And Comment: Ralph's World: Homophobic Hate Speech and Gay Bashing
The provincial Conservative government has long opposed same-sex marriage, and politicians said this week that they would use every legal option to fight new federal legislation legalizing it.
The Edmonton police's hate and bias crimes unit is investigating the two attacks, one of which happened outside city hall, and have made an arrest in one of the cases.
But that is to be expected since you are using a falacious arguement which is pointless.
http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/07/ralphs-world-homophobic-hate-speech.html   (4481 words)

  
 Swede's Sermon on Gays: Bigotry or Free Speech? (washingtonpost.com)
Green has also found a following in the United States.
U.S. law regulates what can be said about individuals, but it generally protects speech directed against groups, however harsh, allowing Ku Klux Klan leaders and neo-Nazis, for example, to state their ideologies publicly.
But in Europe, laws banning such speech and similarly controversial symbols are common.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html   (762 words)

  
 Religious Right Hate Speech
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the attack on Matt, condemn hate speech that demeans gay men and lesbians and helps to create a culture of violence against them (and give examples of such speech from this Web site), and demand the passage of state and federal hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation.
Writers should include their name, address and telephone number for verification purposes.
http://www.hatecrime.org/subpages/hatespeech/hate.html   (2781 words)

  
 Gay disease
Historically, the term has been used by doctors, particularly in the 1970s, but there is no evidence that a gay-specific disease is even possible.
It can also be a form of homophobic hate speech.
The term is currently used predominantly by religious objectors to homosexuality, and may be considered homophobic hate speech.
http://www.bopedia.com/en/wikipedia/g/ga/gay_disease.html   (553 words)

  
 Encyclopedia4U - Anti-gay slogan - Encyclopedia Article
In the political use, anti-gay slogans are commonly used to state the varied cases against homosexuality, and these reflect the spectrum of discourse among those who oppose homosexuality and gay rights.
The slogan 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead' has been used in the United States to express both opposition to homosexuality and hatred towards homosexual persons.
Phelps and his supporters and members of his church (1) attend said gatherings, as well as other gay-related events, with signs bearing anti-homosexual slogans which some consider to be hate speech.
http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/a/anti-gay-slogan.html   (454 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Is opposing same-sex marriage 'hate speech'?
The case is significant, because a decision against the employees could result in silencing debate about homosexuality and related issues in the state of California, says Richard Ackerman, whose public-interest law firm is representing the two women.
"The court bordered on saying references to 'family values&; could be hate speech if it were to be proved those words were disruptive," Ackerman told WorldNetDaily.
While a ruling against Rederford and Christy might restrict debate about homosexuality, a decision in their favor could set a precedent that would overturn anti-discrimination policies in the state.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37628   (583 words)

  
 4Reference Fudgepacker
However, given the article's short length, its content could reasonably be moved to Homophobic hate speech, replacing the original article with a redirect.
But abbreviation of that content (except where duplicated, or found to be wrong or unsupported) would not be appropriate.
-- BCorr ¤ Брайен 14:04, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC) ** If the content merged into Homophobic hate speech is kept (and I see no reason why it shouldn't be, as it is as valid an example of homophobic hate speech as any), then deletion after merging is not an option.
http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Fudgepacker.html   (510 words)

  
 Anti
When Joseph Lieberman was nominated as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in the summer of 2000, commentators feared an upsurge in anti-Semitism in reaction to the Jewish senator from Connecticut.
For the most part, they found, other than the usual suspects, no outburst of such sentiments.
Phelps has made a name for himself for decidedly homophobic hate speech.
http://www.catholicleague.org/research/anticat_internet.htm   (6650 words)

  
 Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
David Bernstein, professor at George Mason University School of Law, addressed the topic of how antidiscrimination laws are creating problems for free speech in his recent book, "You Can't Say That!" Fear of litigation, he observed, "is having a profound chilling effect on the exercise of civil liberties in workplaces, universities, membership organizations, and churches."
The law center had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Betsy Hansen as a result of a dispute over the 2002 Diversity Week program held at the Ann Arbor Pioneer High School.
Another case, still to be finalized, involves a Colorado mother who left a lesbian relationship after converting to Christianity in 2000.
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=49050   (1212 words)

  
 Peppermint Patty
Hating and calling names at those who believe differently only serve to show your only intolerance.
Posted by mtpolitics at March 6, 2004 08:26 AM Patty,
Human beings must give each other the same free will to choose what the believe, and they should not insult anyone who disagrees with them as being narrow-minded homophobic idiots who think that somehow there will be more gayness if we allow gays to marry.
http://www.pdawwg.com/blog/archives/cat_free_opinions.html   (11929 words)

  
 Gay Mafioso: 10/01/2004 - 10/31/2004
Despite tenets such as "love your neighbor" and "we were all created in God's image," why do usually well-meaning religious people feel it's warranted to attack gay people, even when religious leaders denouce such behavior, even when their arguments are proven invalid?
This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
We must attack homophobic hate speech whenever and wherever we see it — globally, nationally or locally.
http://gaymafioso.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_gaymafioso_archive.html   (1164 words)

  
 AEGiS-PRn: AHF Believes Condom Controversy Fuels Hate Speech; West Hollywood Bars Post Anti-Semitic Slurs
The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
AHF Believes Condom Controversy Fuels Hate Speech; West Hollywood Bars Post Anti-Semitic Slurs
The anonymous hate speech attack on Weinstein and AIDS Healthcare Foundation was denounced by other prominent civic, community and religious leaders at the press conference including West Hollywood City Council Member Paul Koretz, TEMPLE KOL AMI Rabbi Denise Egger, and Los Angeles Human Rights Commissioner Morris Kight.
http://www.aegis.com/news/PR/2000/Pr000116.html   (661 words)

  
 Letters to the Editor - Minnesota Daily
This ordeal has been hard enough for the family without the entire nation becoming involved.It only makes it worse when people misrepresent the facts of the case.
A Monday article, “Bloggers and thefacebook.com are taking part in Minnesota Student Association elections,” also featured two blogs frequented by students interested in the upcoming Minnesota Student Association election.
Monday’s opinion by the University’s Office for Multicultural and Academic Affairs correctly called on students to make a concerted effort to confront hate speech and other intolerant incidents within our campus community.
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/03/31/63907   (803 words)

  
 The Razor » 2005 » March
An openly gay man expresses himself on the Internet and he is silenced - not by the Religious Right, not by the homophobic Republicans - but by the Left for expressing opinions that they don’t like.
Looks like the GayPatriot was silenced when he took on the PC-Correct outing campaigners who threatened a boycott of the corporation he works for.
Schiavo has already received death threats, and these will no doubt continue indefinitely since there is no shortage of lunatics in this country who are willing to protect life by taking it.
http://www.therazor.org/?m=200503   (2036 words)

  
 Oregon Magazine - Lifestyles of the wet and happy
Holbrook, on the program to celebrate his many decades portraying Mark Twain (Sam Clemens), pointed out that suppression of free speech was dangerous to the American experiment in self governance.
OMED: Hal Holbrook, a liberal, talking to Bill Moyers, a liberal, on the liberal progrm, NOW, on the liberal network, PBS, recently said that political correctness creates the Silent Lie.
So, in the spirit of free speech that isn't just liberal, we say kudos to Jason Mattera, a resident of Brooklyn of Puerto Rican ancestry, who generated this idea, which is generating hate speech towards him.
http://www.oregonmag.com/OregonMagLifestylesPage.htm   (4050 words)

  
 Journalism Resources - Media Law - Hate Speech
Journalism Resources - Media Law - Hate Speech
Suggestions, corrections and comments for Journalism and Mass Communication Resources to Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/mediaLaw/hateSpeech.html   (83 words)

  
 eclectica, a weblog
It goes much more indepth than most online personality tests, and I thought the results were accurate.
If you're under the impression that all pro-lifers are wackos who will kill abortionists at any given opportunity or are only rich, white, homophobic men, you really should check out this site.
"SpeechBot is an experimental index of popular US radio shows, based on state-of-the-art speech recognition technology." I think I may have 'blogged this before, but it's rather cool; it deserves a second link.
http://www.eclecticat.net/archive/thirteen.html   (5221 words)

  
 hate speech - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "hate speech" is defined.
We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word hate speech:
hate speech : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
http://www.onelook.com/?w=hate+speech&ls=a   (95 words)

  
 Book search for homophobic hate speech - WordIQ eBooks
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