Here in the UK this week there has been controversy over a play that depicts violence and rape in a Sikh temple (known as a Gurdwara). Protestors have managed to have the play taken off, which in turn has upset proponents of free speech.
So, here is the question; should people be allowed to express any point of view, be it considered by some to be racial, blasphemous, anti-religious, anti-Semitic or homophobic?
Now, as a liberal who believes that people are in the main decent and good (though that is a different debate so don't go there), I would argue that you should be able to say anything and that in a free society those who propagate extremist and dangerous views will be found out to be exactly that. Knowledge and education should liberate us from dogmatism and intolerance.
But, having said that, I am not sure that I personally could tolerate people advocating pedophilia or sexual violence to women.
It is even more complicated in that as ex-JWs, we didn't have freeness to express any individual views and surely that was wrong.
Eyeslice