The Westboro Baptist Church should not have a right to free speech

It would appear for all intents and purposes that in response to the slippery slope I have proposed we worry about, my opponent has offered an alternative, in order to make risking mine look more favorable than risking his. However, the supposed link between the genesis of the Holocaust and the Westboro Church disintegrates rapidly upon examination. This is firstly because of what we have observed thus far of the Westboro Church. In 20 years of existence, they have lost one third of their minuscule starting membership. This is in stark contrast to my opponent's example, with Drexler's committee growing from 55 members in 1919 to 4,000 in 1921[1]. Far from dying off like the Westboros are, this movement had an explosive, rapidly growing element to it. If the Westboros had this element, as my opponent would need them to for the analogy to stick, we would've witnessed this already during the 20 years they've existed.Perhaps more importantly, we need to examine the culture in which these two groups existed, and their attitudes towards them, respectively. As I have stated repeatedly without argument from my opponent, the Westboro Church is existing in a culture that is increasingly opposed to their core beliefs. Not so with Drexler's Committee. History tells us:"Their defeat in World War I gravely accelerated anti-Semitism among the German people. Many German writers and public figures (encouraged by the German Army General staff) explained the defeat with the "stab in the back" argument -- that Jews and communists had undermined morale at home when the army was still winning the fight in the field. This was of course far from the truth, for the German army was collapsing by November 1918 and much of the navy was already in mutiny. But thousands of Germans, unwilling to believe that defeat was inevitable after 1917, accepted the argument."[2]I would encourage voters interested in further information on the history of antisemitism in Europe leading up to the second world war to follow my second link; for the purposes of the debate however, I believe this quote is sufficient. It clearly shows that the ideas expressed by Drexler were not like Westboro's in terms of cultural acceptance. Drexler's cause grew because people supported it. Nobody supports the kind of hate coming out of the Westboro Church.Under any rational examination, we can see there is no reason to think the Westboro Church is going to produce something on the level of the Holocaust; in fact, as I have repeatedly shown, the only rational prediction at this point for the Church is its eventual extinction, based upon membership rates and cultural opposition.So, I've reasonably shown that my opponent's slippery slope is unfounded. This pretty much sets us back to my initial argument: the Westboro Church affects way less people than an abusive government might, and it is only growing less and less in influence. Why bother risking giving government too much power for our own good when the problem is rapidly becoming a non-problem naturally?Thanks for reading.Sources:[1] http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] http://web.mnstate.edu...