[uup]

> If you ask people if they support a constitutional right to free speech, they'll probably say yes. If you ask them if someone should have a right to say some specific disagreeable thing, many people will say no.

Source? I think most people are going to understand that speech you disagree with is part of freedom of speech.

[kaashif]

If the speech gets offensive enough, you can get people to say it shouldn't be protected.

Is Fred Phelps holding a sign saying "Fags die, God laughs" at a military funeral protected speech? It was non-obvious enough that it went to the Supreme Court, meaning a lot of people thought he had no right to say that.

Do you have the right to burn a US flag in protest? There literally were laws banning that until the Supreme Court said that's protected.

I don't think it'd be hard to find people who are still in favor of a flag burning ban, or who want to ban offensive speech near funerals.

I don't have statistics but anyone who was around for those examples knows there were plenty of people on both sides.