This actually *is* about free speech.
Yes, A&E has the right to suspend Phil Robertson.
Just as WE have the right to tell A&E (and the rest of the world) that we aren’t putting up with it any more.
To pretend that this is about Robertson’s words to a magazine any more is to whistle past the graveyard. GLAAD attacked a normal, christian, religious point of view. A&E reacted to less than 5 percent of the population being angry by suspending him.
Then a large swath of the population got ticked off, and have taken it on themselves to speak out LOUDLY in favor of the religious viewpoint.
What is really interesting to me is that Robertson was suspended over his personal religious views - which is itself a violation of civil rights laws!
A&E denied him that. And you say A&E had a right to suspend him.
In other words you are denying Phil Robertson's right to free speech also