Chain store Target recently filed a lawsuit to prohibit the pro-equality group Canvass for a Cause from advocating outside its San Diego stores. Though Target would like to frame the case as a matter of private property, it's actually about free speech, and how the store's suppressing it in the name of its self-interest. 

The store's actions are even more troubling, because they resemble rights infractions exhibited elsewhere, like Harding University, which squashed LGBT students' free speech to uphold its religion-based discrimination. 

Civil rights should not be so malleable, or disposable. If Target believes in this nation's most basic freedoms, it will drop its lawsuit and let Canvass for a Cause practice its free speech and freedom of assembly.