Family Research Center: Hate parading as religion?

One of the Family Research Center’s primary activities is opposing any civil consideration for same sex orientation and unions, often using fatuous claims and statistics. That the assertions of the group, deeply rooted in the religious right, are wrong is almost immaterial. The make their claims with a preacher’s thunder and a God’s-on-our-side certitude.

Is it protected speech, even if a concoction of lies and slander, or is it free speech? The LA Times’ Tim Rutten weighs in on the question in a recent column, “Hate Under Cloak of Religion.”