Will:  The promoting of illegal action, of course, is not protected speech.  Benefits of tobacco?  Let him/her talk and "bury" them with the evidence regarding the use of tobacco.  Child pornography.....clearly promoting child pornography is not protected speech.  A sermon from the Westboro Baptist Church? Protected speech...whether we like it or not.  

"Are you a "liberal" in that you're "willing to accept or respect" these ideas?"  There's a difference between "accepting or respecting" ideas and respecting and accepting...and supporting the First Amendment... and allowing ideas which are not violations of the law but which one finds deplorable, to be heard.  

Instead of censoring the voice of racism and white supremacy, let's "take them on" and defeat them with the rational and moral argument that they are WRONG.  I have every confidence that we both can and must do just that.  Gary crum