Posted on 07/31/2010 8:22:32 PM PDT by geraldmcg
Are we on the threshold of seeing hardcore porn on prime time TV? Very possibly so, if we follow the logic of New York Post columnist Jacob Sullum.
On July 24, 2010 in a column entitled “The trouble with outlawing porn,” Jacob Sullum, supported two recent federal court decisions, one of which invalidated the FCC’s broadcast indecency law enforcement policy, and the other of which dismissed obscenity charges against a commercial distributor of hardcore pornography. Sullum said the cases “show that prohibiting vaguely defined categories of speech undermine the rule of law as well as freedom of expression.”
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Odumbo is on enough already!
If libertarians get large enough to fight conservatism from the inside, then yes, liberalism will totally rule the land.
WHile I don’t agree with porn on prime time TV, I don’t believe it should be outlawed in any fashion, because the 1st Amendment in my opinion is just as if not more important than the 2nd Amendment.
I feel that is why the framers placed it first in the BoR, the same way I feel they put guns second.
They wanted us to use protest, opinion and communication to stop the building of the beast before it reaches tyranny and if that failed, we start shooting.
And such attempt to regulate free speech is a dangerous and slippery slope.
There is a very good reason the frames made it so clear.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I wish. You know how much money I would save?
lol!
Nothing will stop this from happening, and people will either just sit there and watch it (while complaining about it online and to friends), or people will have to take the radical step of changing the channel and (shocking idea, I know) realizing not every channel will cater to their personal morals, and will only watch channels that they deem appropriate.
LOL ger - I remember riding our bikes as 12 year old kids to hide in the brush behind the Drive-in to see t!tty movies.
Still - I think you should have to work for it... after the movie was over we went frog gigging or night catfishing.
At the time, the Founders were restricting the federal government, not the states.
How do you like that? The guy above me makes an intelligent post and I silly up the thread. Sorry...
ARE WE ON THE Threshold of setting up a Giant Strawman ?
Somehow I don’t think that the Founding Fathers intended for images of sexual intercourse and other sex acts to be considered as “freedom of speech”. But courts have given obscenity this protection. It wasn’t always that way.
Yes, so God Bless the Fourteenth Amendment...
Blog-pimp.
That analysis doesn't bear scrutiny. It's pretty easy to argue that America was a much freer place during the time when things like pornography were strictly controlled by law. If there's a "slippery slope" at all, our society stepped onto it when pornography (and sex in general) began going mainstream in the 60s.
But pornography is just a symptom, of course, of a more general decline into decadence. Complaining about pornography without accounting for the larger context is like missing the forest for the trees.
The framers had no inkling that the affirmation of these noble freedoms would one day be construed to grant absolute license to the grossest of vices, as they understood them.
No, not anytime soon. Despite free speech and how it may or may not apply, the public outcry and backlash would be historic. Remember, plenty of Libs are against pornography because of how it tends to objectify women.
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