Replying to hate speech take two

ok, why did the site refresh? arrrrgh!
rrranyways...

in sweden there is a pastor who is imprisoned for hate speech toward homosexuals. i don't know all the details, but he, during a sermon, voiced his opinion on homosexual behavior (read: sodomy) from a biblical standpoint. at no point in time did he visciously attack gays, perdsecute them or harass anyone in the assmbly: pure and simple voicing of ones opinion, protected by the swedish constitution as one of the fundamental rights of a citizen.
so tell me this: where do you draw the line between hate speech and opinion? how do you know the difference between freedom of expression in action and discriminatory speech towards a persons?

i read in a herald tribune a while back about this very thing: a group of neo nazis wanted to hold a rally, but the got scraed out of it by a truck load of death threats. ironicaly, the pepetrators used what they were denying the neo nazis to escape persecution: freedom of speech. a paradox, as this happens many times, be it a jew calling someone antisemetic or a black insulting someone for calling them a nigger, are we all juts hypocritacl, only allowing otheres the right to express themselves untill a ceratin point and then handing out a double standard to them when we respond in kind?

in the same article, a neo nazi (again) was on trial for anti semetic sentiments toward a group of jews. problem with this trial was, that the main juror, the one most respêcted and influencial among the bench, was a jew. but his descision is one of the repectable things ever, a
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