[Jacquerie]

License is not liberty. The judge was wrong to deny the community its just power to promote virtue.

[Flycatcher]

License is not liberty. The judge was wrong to deny the community its just power to promote virtue.

I agree.

[JRandomFreeper]

At least you called it a power. That's what it is, raw use of power.

BTW, look up promotion of virtue and prevention of vice.

That's currently a big thing in parts of the world.

Women should remain covered from head to toe, and not allowed outside or to speak.

/johnny

[RIghtwardHo]

Not true. Who’s virtue? Suppose the community is a bunch of atheists and they don’t want Jesus on your front lawn. No. There is a reason the First Amendment is the first.

[Ken H]

License is not liberty.

James Madison on liberty and licentiousness:

The sophistry of a distinction between the liberty and the licentiousness of the press is so forcibly exposed in a late memorial from our late envoys to the Minister of the French Republic, that we here present it to you in their own words:

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_speechs21.html