Why in the world can’t we let each other talk? Why do we want to silence those with different opinions? Here are two very different cases of people trying to exercise their right to free speech, having to fight those who want to silence them because they don’t like the message.
The first is from a woman who wrote a letter to the editor of her local paper noting that being gay was not the same as being black (Um…I would think was obvious) and was fired from her job because of it:

A woman is suing the university where she worked for firing her over a privately written newspaper commentary expressing her Christian views on homosexuality.
Crystal Dixon, the former associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo
, was fired in May after she objected to an opinion article in the Toledo Free Press that compared striving for “gay rights” with the civil rights struggles of black Americans.
Dixon responded with a Free Press editorial of her own, written not in her capacity as a university employee but as a private citizen.
“As a Black woman,” Dixon wrote, “I take great I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are ‘civil rights victims.’ Here’s why. I cannot wake up tomorrow and not be a black woman. I am genetically and biologically a black woman and very pleased to be so as my Creator intended.”
University of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs immediately suspended Dixon and condemned her statements. Within days, Dixon was fired.
Now, with the help of the Thomas More Law Center, a not-for-profit law firm dedicated to the defense and promotion of the religious freedom of Christians, Dixon has today filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court claiming violations of her constitutional rights of free speech.

Whether you agree with the opinion she expressed or not, don’t you think she has the right to express it?
Well, how about this one?

Withrow’s neighbors are humbugging out about the “Yes We Can” message she wrote in red, white and blue lights on the roof of her home in southeast Aurora’s Tuscany subdivision.
Yes they are. No kidding.
Members of the Tuscany Maintenance Association apparently are so offended by the three words that they have sent not just one, but two testy letters citing a threat to property values, demanding the lights’ immediate removal and threatening Withrow with a fine.

Political sour grapes! All the woman woman wanted to do was show her patriotism along with her Christmas display. I wonder if they would have complained if she has put up a lighted, “Support the troops” sign.
And trying to silence someone never works and usually backfires:

She also is mulling further flexing her First Amendment muscles with more lights on her roof that are sure to annoy the association.
” ‘Praise Allah,’ I’m thinking, or ‘Allah is Great,’ ” she said.

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