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change them.

Is anybody trying to silence Mr. Minton?
I don’t care if he goes out there tonight. He can’t get
his sign back, it’s already in evidence, but he can make
another one. He can go out there tonight. I don’t care.
You have already heard about the injunction. He can’t
come within ten feet of the buildings. He can still
picket. He is not enjoined from going out there and
picketing, he can go all he wants, but his right to
picket doesn’t trump their right to practice their
religion, which means you can’t start messing with them.
That’s exactly what he did on October 31st.

What was his message that night. And if
you think about it, think about, when you talk about
suppressing free speech, think about that for a minute,
all that does is stir the undercurrent. There is an
undercurrent of hate. Wouldn’t you rather have Mr.
Minton on the street protesting after you heard his
message in here? You hear his message in here and you
discard it. You understand that it is bigotry. It is
well known what his message is. Everybody can take him
for what he is and what you saw. No, I don’t want to
shut him up. No, no. I want him out there tonight. I
want him out there every night, and every night after
that, and every night after that so people can listen to