Home Opinion Pam Bondi vs. Charlie Kirk: Is ‘hate speech’ free speech? “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech. “Hate speech does not exist legally in America,” he wrote on May 2, 2024. The principle of free speech finds theological footing in the Christian teaching that every person’s conscience is ultimately accountable to God alone. “My position is that even hate speech should be completely and totally allowed in our country.