So you would only permit 'free speech' in private?  

I think the Constitution permits free speech in public but permits private people (like the R-G) to limit speech where they control.

That's why the anti-abortion folks are on the sidewalk near Planned Parenthood, not in their building.  And that's why our bums can beg on the sidewalk but not in Valley River Center.

And if enough legislators voted to use your money for a statue of Goldschmidt or Packwood or McVeigh, that's just the way it is.

The Oregon requirement that "1% for art" be spent on art selected by agents of the government that has resulted in those ugly red things all over Eugene and Springfield is our money and you can't legally tear them down.