This headline tells you everything you need to know

Hurricane 'was God's wrath'

Agreed. Both the statement and the question.

Yes, well.

This highlights the difference between free speech and arson.

I don't know dude. Much as I detest it, church burning - as long as no one is inside - has always seemed more like an act of speech than an act of arson (of course it is both).

In any event, the extremism of the ideas represented by both the speech and the arson cum speech are equally hateful and what really matters in judging the players.

Shep:

It's not what you say that counts as much as what you do.

"It's not what you say that counts as much as what you do."

Ara,

I agree totally.

However, it still matters a great deal what leaders say.