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* Two gays kissing is - like anybody kissing - caused by attraction. It's a positive emotion and whilst many feel uneasy about it, it is not inherently a negative thing.

Off course it is not a negative thing not to me and you at least, but to many people this is offensive and is as in your face as someone wearing a hateful sign. I do not understand such a reaction to it, it is two people kissing but still it can generate just as negative a response as a hateful sign.

I completely understand your arguments, but I'm sticking to my guns that when freedom of speech is likely to result in such an overwhelmingly negative emotional response and is attached to historic events which many would like to forget -

I do see your point, however my problem with it is, 50 years ago a black man in USA wearing a tshirt that said my kid have as much the right to a good eduction as your kid, could cause just as much overwhelming negative response. My hubby had a teacher who was a sailor in the 1950's, one time he was in USA and he saw that blacks and whites could not sit in the same place on the buss. Now this sailor said fuck this, it is not fair and sat down in the black section. As a result he was beaten up but a gang of white men who was offended that he had sympathies with the black population, today men like this sailor is the heroes, however if he and the others of any race who thought segregation where bullshit had considered, oh, well I should not express myself in a way that could lead to overwhelming negative emotional responses then there might still be a black and a white part off the buss.

One have to tolerate idiots using the freedom of speech and freedom of expression because one day one might need that right to fight for what is just and right but which might not be accepted by mainstream society. The protection of the freedom of expression have never been about protecting popular expressions, but rather it is about everyone having the right to express their views, no matter what those views might be.

it is sometimes better to control it. For societies' sake.

I do not mean to offend, however there is allot of people today that say the same about gays expressing themselves in public, or gays that fight for equal rights. And I am quite sure there where many that said the same about those that expressed their views that segregation where bull to. It is never best to control freedom of speech for society's sake, for then it is not the freedom of speech anymore, it is the freedom to say whatever is popular and accepted.