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Agreed in principle, but there are certain situations where the boundaries are much less clear. Should I in a gentleman's club allow women? Obviously not, and it's not even discrimination.
Should I in Lesswrong allow the discussion of theology? Obviously not, and someone shouldn't, in the normative sense, invoke freedom of speech to allow trolling.
At the same time, I can create a social network which is devoted to the dissemination of only carefully verified news, and no one should be able to invoke freedom of speech to hijack this mission.
LW discusses theology all the time, it just uses weird terminology and likes to reinvent the wheel a lot.
The whole FAI problem is better phrased as "We will create God, how do we make sure He likes us?". The Simulation Hypothesis is straight-up creationism: we were created by some, presumably higher, beings for their purposes. Etc.