Word: unpopularity
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...Freedom of Clinic Access bill will prevent such protests. The law, in fact, addresses the right of people to "peacefully demonstrate or picket." For Wang to presume that abortion protesters who are actually behaving in a respectable manner will be hauled off to jail because they are protesting an unpopular position is quite a stretch of logic...
...There is this area of hate speech...where speech codes often make it more dangerous and risky to utter unpopular thoughts on a college campus than in most places in the real world," Silverglate said...
...Constitution is very clear on the issue of minority rights. Their viewpoints, however unpopular, must not be denied equal protection...
Operation Rescue and other anti-abortion supporters, on the other hand, hold little political clout in this state and therefore draw little sympathy from lawmakers. Anti-abortion protesters should not receive greater penalties just because they are politically incorrect, unpopular in the state and politically vulnerable...
...there is only one way Haiti makes its problems matter: by sending thousands of desperate migrants out to sea on the 600-mile journey to America. The boat people's efforts resonate loudly in this country, where immigration, especially by the black and the poor, has grown unpopular. Clinton has argued that the best way to keep Haitians at home is to see that democracy and prosperity take root there. That might be correct, but the U.S. Coast Guard has also done an effective job of turning the boats back...