When this story first broke, Ezra Levant (free speech activist) jumped to Earle's defense. Ezra appears to have a fair number of fundamentalist Christian followers. Anyway, the next time Earle spoke, apparently a good number of Christian 'free speechers' attended the event to give moral support.
I wasn't there, but from one description I read, it was quite the awkward evening.
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