Idiot accuses "anarchist agenda" of limiting speech

How illogical is the right-wing brain trust these days?

They think hate crimes are protected as free speech. If you walk up to someone and slug them in the face solely because of their race or religion, the rightists will fight to the death to defend you, as they misread the First Amendment.

Or at least it seems that way, because every time stiffer hate crime laws are proposed, the wingnutosphere screams about its True Free Speach Now (tm). (Bush refused to expand hate crime protections because he absurdly claimed it would have violated free speech.)

In criticizing a new federal hate crime bill now pending, right-wing legal eagle Mathew Staver is proving to be every bit as irrational as one might expect.

Staver is the founder of the misnamed Liberty Counsel and serves as the law school dean at Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell). Liberty Counsel bullies organizations that run afoul of its aims. For instance, it threatened to sue a public library because it awarded certificates of accomplishment to kids who read Harry Potter books. (The library backed down.)

Mathew Staver said the new hate crime bill is part of the "radical homosexual anarchist agenda", which he says would involve the government limiting speech.

Mathew, you moron, go look up anarchism in your 'Young Students Encyclopedia'. If it's anarchist, how can it use the government to limit something?

I guess we can't expect logic to stand in the way of right-wing ravings.

For the record, the new bill doesn't limit speech. Complaints about hate crime laws suppressing free speech have been bogus from the very beginning.