Free Speech in Marquette Park: A Realistic Look at the Market Place of Ideas

Are the Free Speech Rights of Heterosexuals at Risk?

“…McGaffey (1978) provides us with a first-person account of her attendance at the infamous Nazi rally in Chicago's Marquette Park (the end result of the suit against the village of Skokie, Illinois). Although only a tiny number of persons in the park were dressed in the garb of Frank Collin's National Socialist Party, more widespread support for the Nazi ideas among Marquette Park area residents was, according to McGaffey, &dquo;obvious.&dquo; Here were hundreds of &dquo;normal looking kids&dquo; wearing &dquo;White Power&dquo; t-shirts, yelling &dquo;Kill the Niggers,&dquo; &dquo;Kill the Jews,&dquo; and &dquo;Roast them like pigs!&dquo;: This was not a football game, and the opposing yells were not those of friendly rivalry.…”