Disclaimer: I'm just an average guy...

Since when does telling people that they can't have sex in a public bathroom qualify as "hate speech?"  Since when does trying to evict pornographic material from a public library equate to "demonizing" a group of people?

Well, let's ask the mayor of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Jim Naugle (a Democrat).  Apparently, Naugle went too far when he said the city needed to crack down on sex in public bathrooms, and to say that gay and lesbian literature, some of which includes "adult material" (read: pornography), should not be housed in a public library.  That seems pretty fair to me.

But of course, there is a huge uproar over his "hate."  His opponents are not arguing whether it's a good policy to allow people to have sex in public bathrooms.  And none of them are really even defending the decision to place porn in a public library.  Instead, they are simply trying to demonize the mayor, and shut him up.  Even a company that helps to plan reunions for African-American families has "voiced concern about whether the mayor was sending a message of intolerance."  I guess part of the reunion experience is for your kids to take a break from volleyball and watermelon to use the restroom, only to find people having sex there.

And now, his activists have taken the next step in silencing Mayor Naugle... the unprecedented action of removing him from the county tourism board.  I guess condemning this behavior is only ok if it's a Republican Senator trying to engage in it...