Well I currently live in a country where I can reasonably expect to walk down the street hand in hand with a girlfriend and not have abuse hurled at me.
And I'm happy with that, I'd take that any day over living in some "freer" nation where any halfwit street preacher can lobby for my execution through legal channels and nobody care because our speech is "free".
Wisen up people, just because you're free to say something, doesn't mean your actions don't have consequences. And it certainly doesn't mean that you're immune to punishment as a direct result of those consequences.