Despite the schoolyard adage about "sticks and stones," hate speech does cause hurt, and, as we have witnessed too many times in society, can and does have its real-world victims.
Mr. Kennedy's aides said he did make one concession to the kidney stones: the speech he gave was about 10 minutes, roughly half the length of an earlier draft.
But once they posted "Jesus Would Stone Homos" the speech was not only hateful, it was murderous--yet somehow was considered "protected" speech.
Last August, Stone gave a speech to local Republicans in south Florida and said, "I actually have communicated with Assange.
Stone's impromptu speech paled in comparison to Stanton's brilliant outpouring which preceded hers.
Stone presented a speech she had prepared entitled "The Progress of Fifty Years" wherein she described the milestones of change, and said "I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned".
I have seen Hubert Humphrey, and, indeed, Bill Clinton, draw blood from a stone in public speeches, attacking the skeptics in the manner of Jimmy Durante, who to entertain his audience would if necessary take an axe to the piano.
I set one grave apart, Gave speech to stone: "Come back to my sad heart And play this harp of bone".
Mr. Suh, who has a fine ear for modern speech and stoned silliness, takes giddy delight in making Jesus a fairly normal, foul-mouthed guy, whose interest in humanity doesn't extend much beyond his own pain and happiness.
