Well, Dave, there is certainly a debate to be had about whether we are biased against free speech that goes against our politics. A bit of head-scratching and conscience-mining there would no doubt be apt. In that other thread in which Vin Garbutt and his anti-abortion preachifying was discussed, I did mention that there are one or two other folk singers whose political side I'm definitely on but whose gigs I've avoided because of the unsubtle and anti-artistic manner in which they choose to deliver their message. I tried to illustrate what I think is a good way of making your point via the poetry of song lyrics using a passage from a Woody Guthrie song. And I said poetry, not base appeals to sentiment or emotion. When I go to a gig I want to see the artist in full flow on good form. In no way does that disallow them from putting across their points, but they would be well advised to do it artistically without jabbing their audience in the eyes. That's what we pay good money for, not to hear polemics and ranting.