I never said i wanted that mandated. I just wish we lived in a society that cared that much (again) to simply value that time of the week.
You talk about “caring” and “values.” I would encourage you to to broaden the list of things you care about and value.
For what it’s worth, nobody is a true free speech maximalist—not even you. If someone stood outside your church every Sunday and terrified churchgoers by screaming violent threats at them, I suspect you would have no problem with that individual facing (in this case, presumably legal) consequences. And you shouldn’t!
For all that divides us, I do genuinely believe that most—not all, but most—people agree that we collectively can be much better to one another. Holding powerful people accountable when they do or say hateful things is a *good* thing. You have not lost your right to petition your government or to speak your mind generally. You have merely witnessed that, for all the work we still have in front of us, society has at least made a little progress on this one issue to the point that “hey, we shouldn’t be okay with slurs against historically abused and discriminated-against populations” is a consensus position.
EDIT: I see a fair bit of talk about people needing to have “thicker skins.” Frankly, that means very little coming from people who I can all but assume are not members of the community who that word targets. A statement blasting Christianity would almost surely not bother me personally, for instance, whereas it may bother Chad Fleck a great deal. That doesn’t mean he needs to develop a thicker skin.
