but, you wish to continue to defend a person breaking the law by using hate speech - AND you wish to discontinue the discussion now because you cannot get around or handle the fact that a religious nutter homophobe IS ENGAGING IN HATE SPEECH
and, is about to be awarded a national recognition -
which is - by any REASONABLE person's values -------- thoroughly offensive -
we should NOT be awarding national awards to law breaking people who engage in hate speech