Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
From what I see, corporate personhood is tangential to the issue. Corporations are, simply put, associations of citizens and there's no constitutional basis for denying these groups First Amendment rights.
Corporations are not necessarily "associations of citizens," as you well know, and nobody anywhere is suggesting that citizens should be denied any rights of speech.

The implication of your reasoning is that corporate entities are entitled to the full protection of the first amendment. Thus they are citizens, or equivalent. I don't see how you can whistle past the obvious.