Just read Jeremy F. Walton's really great "Who's Afraid of the Free Speech Fundamentalists?: Reflections on the South Park Cartoon Controversy essay in The Revealer. It does a nice job complicating the arguments made by the extreme ends of the issue. Check it out.
"Almost immediately, the complex theological and political issues at hand were reduced to a regrettable polarization of two mutually-exclusive fundamentalisms: stringent religious orthodoxy and free speech. My modest aspiration in this reflection is to attempt to think beyond the either-or of rigid orthodoxy and free speech—an admittedly difficult task in a political context that privileges the comfortable satisfactions of easy dichotomies."
