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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Okay. Here in Ottawa Rev. Phelps was going to come to parliament hill to protest us passing the gay marriage law. A bunch of us, myself included, went to the hill to denouce his way of thinking. However, his protest was called off as Rev. Phelps wasn't even let into the country. But those of us (and I was glad to see that most were straight-but-not-narrow; I think more than just gays should be standing up for gay rights) planning to go to the hill to confront them still went and we had our own little party there.

I think that was the right thing to do. Free speech is fine and dandy, but if you preach hate, or in Coulter's case, implied hate I think we all have the DUTY to stand up and confront those ideas. I, for one, applaud the students that took the time out from their studies to stand up and say we won't stand for hatred on our campus.

It's funny. We have one thread where people are complaining that today's youth are too apathetic about what is going on around us, and then another thread saying these students were wrong for standing up in opposition against ideas they do not share.

Good.

Just don't call in and make threats to Parliament Hill. Because that creates a whole different problem.