I agree with the author on this one. I detest the Westboro freaks, but we can't have our cake and eat it. If we want the freedom to condemn them then we have to allow them the freedom to speak. When the government involves itself in telling us what we can and can't say we climb onto a slippery slope that will only result in the end of freedom.

Good news. In the UK I think they 'discuss' the concept of intelligent design as an alternative viewpoint to the big bang but don't go so far as to teach the biblical bollocks of creation.