To the editors:
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To begin with, how dare these people accost me in public to tell me that I am going to burn in hell because I don’t have the same beliefs that they do? They probably don’t realize that they are insulting MY beliefs when they do that. A lot of people seem to think that their religious beliefs entitle them to lambaste anyone who holds different views. I wish people could see this behavior for what it is: religious bigotry.
The First Amendment does in fact guarantee something else: the right to speak up if you don’t like someone else’s speech. The woman who Grant Pick somewhat unjustly called a “hag” did indeed have the right to say the things she said, even though one could argue that she expressed herself in an unaesthetic way. I personally haven’t found it to be worth the trouble to argue with these self-ordained preachers, since they generally don’t listen to anybody, but to each her own.
