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No, what it is is the double standard that all of you liberals live with. Its OK if you call a group bigots and refuse to deal with them, but when a conservative does the same thing they should be locked up.
its called HYPOCRISY. deal with your reality.
No, like I said I didn't have time to write a proper response.
There's plenty of stuff that needs to be taken into consideration here.
The clear and present danger of Schenck v. US in 1919.
How much of a danger would a load of KKK supporters present to the hall of a black person? I can't answer this, the specifics of individual events that are theoretical are not possible.
For example, when discussing freedom of speech Justice Frank Murphy said "There are certain well-defined and limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise a Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous and the insulting or “fighting” words – those which by their very utterances inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
This is freedom of speech and how it can be limited. If a breach of the peace were to be inevitable, then would it be allowed to go ahead?
Liberty is often only protected when another person's liberty is not put up for questioning.
What's the difference between Christians with a hotel room who don't want gay people there and a black person who has the KKK coming around?
Quite a lot actually. But I don't know the legal position of a hall. How much of a business it is, etc etc.
But in general a gay person isn't going to cause a lack of liberty for other people. They're just going to annoy people if they actually know these men are gay. The KKK is a potential problem.