Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Phillips is the one that engaged with the Catholic kids, not the other way around.

No, you’re missing the point. You’ve gone off on a tangent that has zero relevance to this story. None of the kids, Black Israelites, or Native Americans have lost their job. You’re intentionally conflating 1A rights with employment in the private sector and they’re not the same thing.

I’m not Catholic so I don’t know. I do think that the protesters were all “peaceful” if not polite, and that extends to the Black Israelites.

As NPR has reported, Phillips is the one that walked up to the kids. It’s not the other way around as he has told everyone and that’s documented on video.

1A guarantees the right to gather and protest which is what these kids (and the Black Israelites and the Native Americans) did. Your employer can terminate you for violating company policy. That’s not what this situation involves and you’re mixing apples and oranges.

As I just told someone else, if you go to a protest for indigenous people what right do you have to be free from people protesting your protest? “Counterprotesting” is all the rage today. Just as Phillips had the right to go out and bang his drum and celebrate his heritage, others have the right to mock it or whatever…

It does NOT protect, and never has protected from public/social/civil consequences for expression that—while legally defensible—can still be considered deliberately inflammatory.

It should not come as a surprise that abortion protesters (and as these kids are Catholics at an abortion protest that seems safe to assume) would be Trump supporters. Trump’s delivered on promises to that part of his base that no one else has come close to delivering. He’s made significant changes to the Federal…

NPR didn’t conduct the interview, they just quoted from it. If you click the link the NPR story provides it takes you to this wonderful clip:

Had Phillips not gotten involved in the dispute - for no reason - between the kids and the Black Israelites he would not have any reason to feel disrespected.

Already done:

If you accept Phillips’ version of events, your take would be fair. But the longer video of the entire event tends to contradict it.

Sorry, but the fact you think everyone that watches the entire video - which contradicts all the bedwetting you’ve done and continue to do over this “tragedy” - is a “rube” just confirms you’re the very type of drama queen outrage lover the NPR piece portrays. Keep up the good work, son.

That’s because if immigration gets fixed I suspect a lot of Hispanic voters would tend to vote for the GOP.

Eh, when NPR (not exactly Alex Jones) disagrees I’ll tend to go with NPR’s perspective that things weren’t exactly as initially presented when you got so outraged.

No, there was a chaperone that intervened and kept the kids away from the black Israeli (?) group they were arguing with.

In his case, at that particular event, I think wearing a MAGA hat means “We’re going to overturn Roe v. Wade” with Trump’s appointees.

I don’t know about any of that. This NPR story sounds as if Phillips is the one that got up in MAGA-hat wearer’s personal space. The whole scene seems crazy.

Everyone that was outraged at the beginning when key details of the story were left out purely to stoke outrage from the left.  NPR ran a story on it this morning that explains it well.  They’ve been reporting on it since Sunday and its coverage goes from covering the outrage to explaining that some anonymous Twitter…

No, you said that there needs to be a “congressional bill” and that’s not an amendment to the Constitution.  It takes more than Congress to amend the Constitution.