This is so NOT a 1A issue and I wish people would stop yelling FREE SPEECH! whenever idiots do things like this.
How is it not a First Amendment issue?
I totally agree.
We’re beginning to sound like liberal progressives.
“Sure, you’re free to say and think anything you like, as long as I agree with what you say and think....and I don’t get offended....and my friends don’t get offended. Unless you’re talking about Republicans, white policemen or any white people - then you can say anything you want.”
(That sort of [non-]thinking is similar to my tagline)
How is this not a first amendment issue? I can see the National fraternity's point about kicking them out, that's a freedom of association issue, but the University? For what they said?
Are you only allowed to have certain opinions to go to University, or do you have the right to express opinions that others don't like?
Yes, they were stupid asses for putting forth such a reprehensible opinion, but how can we accept coercive retaliation for their expression of such opinions?
People are calling opposition to Homosexuality "Hate" speech nowadays. They are forcing people to accept Homosexuality whether they wish to or not, and they are using coercive tactics to force their agenda on everyone else.
We are moving towards a time when dissenting opinions will not be tolerated. I'm more worried about the official response to these @$$holes at OU than I am about what they said. Let intolerance for ideas/speech get established as official policy and we will have much bigger problems to worry about down the road.
Oh, so now you want to categorize what is and isn’t free speech?
Then you don’t really believe in the first amendment do you.
If these guys didn’t open their yaps they would have been racists in silence, which is far more dangerous.
They outed themselves by using the very right you would deny them.
You think that would help? It wouldn’t.