Non-offensive speech does not need protection under the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the United States of America. No one would try and stop non-offensive speech. We have to be able to feel, to say, to write, or to create whatever we like, to be individual and free. People need to lighten up, and not be offended by everything that people say about them. Words only have the power that we give them. They have no power of their own to hurt, or offend anyone. Only we as individuals can give them that power over us, the power to hurt or offend us. Words have no meaning or purposes other than what we give them. We have the power to control the effect words have over us, and our lives as human beings. We have the power to control our own minds, to control our own feelings, to control our own lives, to control our own destinies, and to control how much power someone else has over us, by the words that they use.
Voltaire said around the time of the Founding of this Country that, "I may disagree with everything that you say, but I shall defend to the death you're right to say it." People should be able to express themselves, any way they so choose as long as they do not harm anyone else's person or property. There are limits to speech; we cannot yell fire in a crowded theater, and we should not be able to insight to riot. That kind of speech can harm other peoples person and property, but being offended does neither. There is some art, or forms of art, that use religious symbolism, in a most unflattering light, that I have found offensive, but just because I find them offensive I do not think they should be outlawed. I find ignorance and racism offensive, but I don't believe that outlawing either will stop either of them from happening. You cannot stop ignorance or racism by passing a law, is not possible. There will still be ignorant people, and they're always be people who will hate other people for their differences, no matter what you do, or what law you pass.
