Liberty Counsel hypocritical about First Amendment

Liberty Counsel, the Jerry Falwell-linked legal group run by Mat Staver that is trying to horn in on a a ginned-up school prayer controversy in Clark County (see here and here,) tries to insinuate that the students First Amendment rights were violated. Which we could at least consider if Liberty Counsel actually respected the First Amendment.

But Liberty Counsel doesn't respect the First Amendment. Its seems Staver and Liberty Counsel are all for freedom of religion and expression unless they don't like what someone is saying, going so far as to threaten a blogger with legal action:

The billboard, sponsored by "ex-gay" ministry Exodus International, read, "Gay? Unhappy? www.exodus.to." After seeing a photo of the billboards online, Watt posted an altered version reading, "Straight? Unhappy? www.gay.com" on his website, Justinsomnia.org. Liberty Counsel, an anti-gay legal group representing Exodus, sent Watt a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month claiming the parody violated Exodus's intellectual property rights and threatening legal action if the parodies were not removed. In a response sent today to Liberty Counsel, the ACLU's cooperating attorney, Laurence Pulgram of Fenwick & West, LLP, called upon Exodus to drop its attempts to censor Watt, pointing to case law holding parodies to be Constitutionally protected speech.

Normally I try not to use the word "hypocrite," as it is over-used these days, but in this case it seems fair to call Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel hypocrites.